Melanie Berry Psy.D.

Melanie Berry, PsyD., is the Director of the Pediatric Innovation Initiative, a national network of change agents committed to building new measurement capacity to enable providers, parents, and other caregivers to assess and address the effects of early adversity. She’s passionate about helping innovators in early childhood use cutting-edge science and data to promote better outcomes for young children facing adversity. Melanie was formerly the Director of Innovation Strategies at the Center on the Developing Child. In that role, she provided strategic leadership around incubating promising new programs within the Center’s Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) initiative and was part of the team who developed the IDEAS Impact Framework. Melanie is a clinical psychologist by training with a background in developing, implementing, and testing novel programs for young children. Before joining the Center, Melanie was a research scientist with the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention Lab at the University of Oregon under the direction of Dr. Phil Fisher. Melanie is based out of California. Outside of work, she enjoys zen meditation, yoga, and spending time at the coast with her husband and young daughter.