Interview with Melissa Holman

This is an interview with WMU’s Director of Multicultural Affairs for Students Melissa Holman recorded on August 14, 2024. Ms. Holman was interviewed by JB Brown as a part of SHARE's “Standing on Her Shoulders” oral history project. During the interview Ms. Holman discusses the following topics: Her childhood and family; The challenges of finding her path at Ferris State University; Attending a PWI as a Black Woman; Finding community at university; The importance of her faith; Advice for balancing academics and personal life; Grief and struggling after college graduation; The joy of working with K-12 students at Communities in Schools; Her strategies for supporting college students; Being a CliftonStrenths coach; Being the Director of Multicultural Affairs for Students at WMU; The importance of mentorship; Maintaining her well being in and out of work; Her love of stories and media, and; Inspirational Black People in her life.