Melissa Dalton-Bradford

Melissa Dalton-Bradford is an author, public speaker, and cofounder of two nonprofits: Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG), a nonpartisan organization for LDS and other faithful women, focused on watchdogging political leadership and engaging women in the same; and Their Story Is Our Story (TSOS), a refugee advocacy organization that facilitates and promotes collecting and sharing firsthand refugee stories worldwide.

A holder of two degrees from Brigham Young University (BA, German Language and Literature; MA, Comparative Literature), Melissa was the recipient of the 2018 BYU Alumni Association’s Service to Family Award. She has parlayed her training and her family’s thirty years of global nomadism across eight countries and six languages into an extensive body of writing, including articles published in journals, magazines, online sites, anthologies, and her book Global Mom: A Memoir, which won the Association of Mormon Letter’s award for Best Memoir.

Melissa’s speaking (she has addressed UN affiliate conferences, university and international upper school forums, and international women’s symposia) draws on her experience parenting four children in an international context and mourning the drowning death of her eldest. About that tragedy, she has written award-winning poetry and the anthology On Loss and Living Onward.