Melissa Eggleston

With 15 years of tech experience, Melissa Eggleston, M.A., Ph.D. student, is an expert in user experience design and research. She has worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, and SAMHSA’s 988 Office, among others. Melissa won the Aquent Design for Good grant in 2017 to apply trauma-informed principles to a domestic violence agency website. Since then, she has been designing digital technology for people with lived experience of trauma, including interpersonal violence, human trafficking, PTSD, and severe mental illness. In 2022, Melissa co-founded Trauma-Informed Technology. She helps others in the tech industry become more trauma-informed.