Melinda Buchheit provides strategic communications support to each of the Foundation’s initiatives. Before joining the Foundation in 2015, Melinda spent time in Los Angeles, where she completed a term of service with AmeriCorps and worked in media marketing at Paramount Pictures. Melinda spent most of her childhood in the Bitterroot Valley and graduated from Montana State University. She received her graduate degree in communication strategy from Purdue University’s Brian Lamb School of Communications. Melinda and her family live in Bozeman.