Melanie Calleja is passionate and enthusiastic about spreading the design thinking mindset to many people from a wide range of disciplines to help people ask better questions and think more creatively. Melanie has been involved with Design Factory Melbourne on many different occasions over the past few years, including being a workshop associate, research assistant, 'Global project' sessional lecturer and alumni of the 'Global project' run through Design Factory Melbourne. Melanie has a background in communication design and has a strong interest in prototyping and team collaboration. Through the 'Global project' run through Design Factory Melbourne, she has worked on projects involving helping organic farmers and another on managing narcolepsy. Aside from her interest in design Melanie has accredit a lot of her people skills from teaching and training karate. You can often find Melanie drinking tea and enjoying the outdoors.