Work life as Director of International Trainer for Global Rights for Women, consultant, trainer, and writer
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia is the Director of International Training at Global Rights for Women (GRW). She has provided local, national, and international trainings on the following topics:
Global Rights for Women is committed to ending violence against women worldwide. Melissa is proud to work as their Director of International Training to enhance the legal, criminal and community systemic responses to violence against women. Join Melissa is supporting their work through a final donation or in-kind contribution. Click here to contribute to ending violence against women. Melissa is a qualified expert witness on domestic violence in the state of Minnesota. To inquire about expert witness testimony on domestic violence, e-mail Melissa at [email protected] or call at 218-969-3498. You can find out more about her work as an expert witness on her website at: www.domesticviolenceexpert.net Melissa is also the author of a number of written publications on violence against women and is currently writing two books on the subject - one about her mother's childhood of violence and the other to help women better understand why the men who say they love them, hurt them. |
![]() Melissa Scaia presenting with Global Rights for Women in New York at a parallel event training for the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March of 2016.
Education: College of St. Benedict, Bachelors degree Hamline University, Master of Arts in Public Administration |