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Join us for Connect After Hours!

This is the perfect opportunity to meet like-minded professionals, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders from diverse fields.

Whether you're looking to grow your network, collaborate on new projects, or share ideas and insights, this event provides a vibrant and encouraging environment, and potential partnerships that can help drive your personal and professional growth in the year ahead.

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ABOUT OUR HOST

Melissa Erickson | The Moms Collaborative

Melissa Erickson is a mom of 2 boys ages 2 and 5. She grew up in Philadelphia, PA, has a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College in Boston. She moved to Oregon in 2010 to pursue a Masters Degree in Applied Cultural Anthropology at Oregon State University. Since graduating from OSU, she has worked as a fundraiser at various nonprofits around Portland Metro area including Sunshine Division, Adelante Mujeres, Saturday Academy, and currently is the Development Director at A Village for One.

In 2023, she dreamed up a nonprofit mission of her own to support mothers in prioritizing their own mental health and needs. Alongside, her fellow mom friend, Madeline Roosevelt-Defuria she founded The Moms Collaborative in August of 2024 in order to bring moms access to wellness events. Their dream is open a wellness center for moms in a few years to help moms meet their physical, mental, emotional, and social needs to keep their cups full while being everything else they want to be.

Thank you to our Community Partner!