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Melissa Palombi

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia

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Melissa Palombi joined the UVA Athletics department in 2015. Her broad range of duties includes supporting the day to day Licensing operations and the efforts of the Athletics Marketing and Promotions Team.  As the Marketing and Trademark Licensing Coordinator, she works with Todd Goodale, Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs and Licensing Director, to manage the VIRGINIA brand. Some favorite Athletics events she coordinates are the "bookends" of our season. Our "Paint the Town Orange" fall football Pep Rally in Downtown Charlottesville with the UVA Band and the end of the year student athlete banquet and awards show in John Paul Jones Arena, "The Hoos Choice Awards". 2019 was a thrill to be a part of the UVA Athletics dept. as UVA Men's Basketball and Men's Lacrosse took the NCAA Titles. Go Hoos!

Before coming to Virginia, Palombi spent the previous eight years in education and arts administration, primarily in the Denver and Washington, D.C., areas. Palombi’s production background includes a four-year stint working for the Washington National Opera as a costume assistant/director. She previously worked for award-winning Broadway and opera costume designer Ann Hould-Ward in New York City.

Palombi has also worked as a production assistant for ESPN for three years at the Winter X-Games in Aspen. While in Colorado she was a ski instructor, and got out on the slopes as much as she could. She began her professional career at Carnegie Mellon University as a volunteer coordinator and staff trainer for the university’s student orientations from 1999 to 2001.