Melissa is a registered landscape architect (Ontario, Canada), a Research Assistant Professor of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), and the founding director of transverse studio, a collaborative practice which intersects trajectories of landscape, culture, urbanism, and infrastructure through a documentary process of investigation, design, and activism. She is also Principal Investigator for the HKSAR RGC funded project Hong Kong Stair Archive: Documenting the Walkable City.
Prior to teaching at PolyU, Melissa was an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and a designer and project manager at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. She has also worked as an urban designer at Dutoit, Allsopp, Hillier, and as an instructor and design critic at the University of Toronto. Melissa has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from St. John’s College.