Atlanta-based photographer Melissa Golden has toured with rock stars, hitched a ride through a flooded trailer park in a monster truck, hung out the back of an airplane over the Gulf of Mexico, and once found herself covered entirely in chihuahuas.

A photojournalist by training, she’s been making portraits for the pages and covers of magazines for years and by now has met and stolen the souls of the tech, business and political world's biggest newsmakers. With her camera, of course.

Melissa is also a public speaker who likes to talk to large groups of people about things like overcoming obstacles, finding wonder around every corner, and how to create a sustainable creative business.