Melissa Smith
Senior Program Manager
Born and raised in South Africa, Melissa has had a love for the outdoors her whole life. It all started when she would go on remote camping expeditions all throughout Africa with her family.
With the love for the outdoors and sports she went on to study Adventure Tourism Management and obtained qualifications in various areas such as white water kayaking and canoeing, abseil, climbing, high ropes courses, life guarding, scuba diving, wilderness first responder and various certificates with British Canoeing.
She has experience in corporate team building for over 10 years and have a passion to see people reach their full potential. Melissa joined APA in 2016 as a freelance facilitator on youth and adult programs. In 2017, she became a full-time member of the team and is our Senior Program Manager for APA’s Youth Division working al over South East Asia.
