Melanie Gregory has been selected as SWCA’s Midwest/Northeast Principal, responsible for leading the company’s operations in Amherst, Mass., Pittsburgh, and Chicago. 
Melanie joined SWCA in 2012 as a senior project manager in the Austin office before taking on the role of Austin’s Natural Resources Program Director in 2013. A native of Norris, Tenn., Melanie graduated from the University of Tennessee and spent five years as a zookeeper in the Knoxville Zoo Department of Herpetology. She began her consulting career in Cincinnati, Ohio at BHE Environmental, working her way from a bat field technician to Associate Director helping to manage the natural resources team.