Melissa Blakey

Senior Grants & Contracts Administrator

Melissa is a Senior Grants and Contracts Administrator with the Campus Grants Management Team. Melissa received her bachelor’s degree in Economics and Accounting from Xavier University of New Orleans, Louisiana. Melissa started with Duke in July 2014 as a Grants and Contracts Administrator in the Department of Pediatrics before transferring to Mathematics in March 2015. Prior to coming to Duke, Melissa worked as a grant administrator at College of Charleston and Medical University of South Carolina. She has extensive award management experience on the medical, campus, and central office levels. Melissa is a part of Lorrie Robbins’s team providing support to the Department of Mathematics and the North Carolina Leadership Forum group.