LCI Profile - Mellissa Meng

Active transportation means adventure and freedom to Mellissa. She seized on it early and continues to let it inspire her. As an only child growing up in Saskatoon, Canada, she’d ride around town exploring and feeling the sense of empowerment that getting around successfully on your own will bring. Later, as an off-campus student at UCSC, she’d navigate to and from campus on her bike, riding up to campus alongside the buses in the morning and mountain biking through Gray Whale Ranch to get home. She developed love of sustainable transportation when, as an intern, she oversaw Ecology Action’s Bike to Work Day, in which she coordinated the gathering and delivery food and drinks to breakfast stations at nearly 30 locations scattered around Santa Cruz County – all by bike. Later on, a summer tree planting adventure culminated in biking from Port Angeles, Washington to Eureka, California, a trek of almost 900 miles.

Mellissa’s led just about every program area in the decade plus that she h