Melissa is the Chair of the Tax Department at Nutter, co-chairs the Nonprofit and Social Impact practice group and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She advises businesses, tax-exempt entities, and individuals on federal, state, and international matters. Melissa specializes in advising health care, higher education, cultural, and other charitable and nonprofit organizations, and their affiliates. Melissa served as one of the inaugural Co-Chairs of the BBA’s Tax-Exempt Organizations Section and as the Section’s Public Policy Committee Co-Chair. She has developed and presented several brown bag lunch and CLE sessions. Melissa is also a founding Co-Chair of the BBA’s Mass. Gen. Laws Chapter 180 Working Group. She has served as a member of the Joint Strategic Planning Committee and as Co-Chair of the BBA’s 2015 Law Day Dinner. Melissa is a member of the BBF Society of Fellows. Beyond the BBA, Melissa served on the board of the Women’s Bar Foundation as well as several community and education-focused nonprofits. Melissa was selected as the “Non-Profit / Charities Law Lawyer of the Year” in Boston by Best Lawyers in 2022. In 2019, Melissa was named a “2019 Top Women of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and a “Go-To Lawyer” by the publication’s inaugural list in 2020.. Melissa is a graduate of Miami University, cum laude, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, cum laude, and is a member of Order of the Coif.