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Dr. Melissa Nemon is the owner and founder of Nemon Consulting LLC, an SBA 8(a) certified and woman-owned community based research firm in operation for over a decade (WOSB). Her research interests are primarily community-based including monitoring/evaluation, community and social psychologies, community economic development, social economics, asset development, community engagement and practice, logical framework development, social issues and social justice, micro and small business development, community needs assessment, and community participation. While many study why an individual does things, she is interested in why communities do things - sometimes not in their better interests - and she studies potential solutions to social issues and injustices through community-based research and practice.
Nemon has worked with local communities; state and federal government agencies; and a variety of nonprofit, government, for-profit and NGOs (non-governmental organizations). Teaching since 2008, she has instructed undergraduate and graduate academic classes (face-to-face and online) as well as facilitated various community workshops across the US. She was a senior researcher at Brandeis University; before that, the associate dean of community economic development at a small private university; and prior to that, was the vice president of community impact at a large regional United Way for five years. Her consulting includes Army National Guard, U.S. Veterans Administration, Center for State Governments, US Department of Education, NH Center for Nonprofits, State of NH Department of Health and Human Services, NH Humanities, various municipal Police Departments, and NeighborWorks America.
Nemon holds a B.A. in Psychology, a M.A. in Community Social Psychology, a M.A. in Community Economic Development with a specialization in Public Policy, and a Ph.D. in Community Economic Development.
