Melissa Pope
Public Health Analyst (Regional Program Specialist Regional System Administrator) @RTI International
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WORK HISTORY
Public Health Analyst (Regional Program Specialist Regional System Administrator) @RTI International
Regional Program Specialist, Region 7: FL, GA, PR, and U.S. Virgin Islands (11/22 - 04/24)Regional System Administrator, East Region: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, PA, OH, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL.Melissa Pope, MA, joined the NamUs team in 2022. Her background is in medicolegal death investigation, human identification, and biological anthropology. Ms. Pope spent eight years as an autopsy technician, death investigator, and investigations supervisor for the District 5, District 6, and Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s Offices in Florida. Additionally, she served as the cold case program manager at the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science and as lab personnel for the Forensic Anthropology Lab at the University of South Florida (USF). There, she worked to bring cold cases up to current investigative standards through primary document review, skeletal assessments, and forensic archaeology field methods. Ms. Pope has participated in several human rights projects, including the cemetery excavation at the Dozier School for Boys and a mass grave investigation from the Nigerian Civil War.
EDUCATION
University of South Florida
M.A. in Applied Anthropology, Concentration: Biological Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BA, Anthropology, minors in Biology and Sociology
University of South Florida
PhD Candidate in Applied Anthropology (ABD), Biological Anthropology - Uncompleted
ABOUT MELISSA POPE
Melissa Pope, MA, D-ABMDI, joined the NamUs team in 2022. Her background is in…
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