Melanie was born and raised in sunny Arizona and is a graduate of Arizona State University. She started her career in corporate Human Resources and eventually stepped down to stay home with her kids. She decided to go back to school to study nursing, even receiving full scholarship after completing her perquisites, but was sidelined due to a back injury. Melanie has dealt with low back pain, chronic pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvodynia and pudendal neuralgia as well as anxiety and depression for almost two decades. She is tireless in her fight to get the treatments she deserves covered by insurance. Ketamine is one of the major tools in her toolbox that helps her live a more functional life and she is honored to help as Secretary for the Ketamine Task Force.