Kathleen Melin

Kathleen Melin writes with loving attention regarding the care of children and their learning based on thirteen continuous years of home-based learning and the research of her MFA thesis. In addition to her experience as a parent-educator, Kathleen has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and as artist in residence at an arts-based charter school.

She has worked as a magazine editor, as an assistant editor for a weekly newspaper, as a freelance writer for national and regional publications, as a grant writer, and in public relations. Her creative work has appeared in Dust Fire, Feminist Parenting, and A Woman’s Place. She was a contributor to Eric Utne’s Cosmo Dogood’s Urban Almanac, the Twin Cities Family Fun Guide, and authored The Health Careers Book for the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation.

As a community activist, she has held leadership positions in parent-child organizations in Oregon, Alaska, and Wisconsin where she coordinated a county-wide homeschool group for six years. She is also active as a member of her county Renewable Energy Committee and as a coordinator for Natural Step study circles.

Kathleen has worked as a copywriter, voice, and producer of a children’s bilingual radio show and has appeared on air in her many roles as a community organizer.

She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Central America, worked and studied in London, England; Paris, France; and Antigua and Huehuetenango, Guatemala.