Diane Melville is an experienced education professional and entrepreneur. She’s spent years advocating for college financial aid reform and has over four years of experience as a private financial aid consultant. Diane’s first company, ScholarPRO, sought to fix the private scholarship process by delivering scholarships using an online common application platform for scholarships. Since ScholarPRO, Diane has shifted focus towards community college reform.
Diane's new venture, Transfer Bootcamp, provides an online guidance program designed specifically for community college transfer students. Transfer Bootcamp recently won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also the author of The Community College Advantage.
Diane attended Miami-Dade College’s Honors College, a two-year program designed to make the transfer process efficient, and was accepted as a transfer student into the nation’s top universities. She is working on a number of state and federal initiatives to provide more guidance for community college students. Diane has an A.A. in Biomedical Engineering from Miami-Dade College, a B.S. from Babson College in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, and was a member of Harvard Business School’s SVMP.