Melanie Hopkins,
Director of Finance

Melanie Hopkins’s career began in the finance departments of nonprofits, but while employing her skills to help an entrepreneurial friend open her business, she discovered a passion for helping business owners become empowered in their financial management. She founded Finance Friend (www.financefriend.ninja) in 2008 and since then has worked with over 200 companies, ranging from human rights nonprofits to artisanal cheese makers to tech startups. She has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Katie Couric’s Wake-Up Call, the New York Post, Farnoosh Torabi's "So Money" podcast, and US News & World Report. Melanie has taught “Artistpreneur” workshops at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to recent graduates, and has been featured as a guest speaker with Emerging Leaders in New York Arts. Melanie sits on the board of Together Our Unity Can Heal, which provides humane and holistic services to persons living with chronic illness in the Hudson Valley of New York. Melanie is a one-time but still proud triathlete, a voracious reader who is always looking for new book recommendations, and a self-proclaimed scholar of the Shondaverse.