Melanie F. Wilson

Updated March 2012.

Feel free to look around to learn about my professional work, my volunteer activities, and my life overseas. In the Fall of 2010, I began classwork for a doctorate in Instructional Technology and Distance Education from NOVA Southeastern University in Florida through a blended online/on-site program.

I just completed a four-year contract teaching technology at the International School of Ulaanbaatar. It's a terrific school, and I loved my work! Now we are back home in Minnesota.

It's been a long interesting journey that has led me to where I am now...

I began teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)  in the Peace Corps in 1994. After completing my service I took a job with USAID as ESL Coordinator for the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training (ORT) directing the English departments of five schools.

From 1999-2005, I worked as an editor and freelance writer. I started a small magazine called Vegetarian Baby & Child, which later merged with VegNews Magazine, a publication out of San Francisco, CA.  At that time I went to work as an editor-at-large of the magazine and continued to publish two online magazines at Vegetarianbaby.com and Vegetarianteen.com.

In the summer of 2005, after five years of homeschooling my two daughters - Kalli (13) and Mackie (9) - I decided to continue my education.  Before working at ISU, I was a parent teacher at Kalli's homeschool co-op, which you may enjoy reading about on the volunteer page under Curriculum Vitae on the menu. You'll also find there information about my Peace Corps service and my work as a breastfeeding counselor with La Leche League International.