Melanie Fitzpatrick

Melanie has decades of corporate, association management and marketing communications agency leadership experience in food and ag. She  brings food and ag industry expertise in the areas of public affairs, marketing, policy, communications, and program management. This multi-disciplinary background enables her to interpret and weave together many complex interactions among the different aspects of the food and ag space.

Melanie approaches both business and life with an uncharacteristic balance of the emotional and practical. Because of this right-brained, left-brained juxtaposition, when engaging with audiences, Melanie enjoys tying together the genuine human-interest stories of food and agriculture with the very pragmatic business implications. These “narratives with a purpose” can lead to meaningful takeaways for audiences.   

Melanie earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia and a Master of Business Administration from Webster University, where she graduated summa cum laude.