Melissa Malloy graduated from Mountain View-Gotebo High School as a Jr. so that she could travel to Italy as a foreign exchange student.  She then attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University receiving a degree in Art Education in 2001. Currently, she
is working on a Master’s Degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction from California State University, Bakersfield. She began her teaching career at South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, OK where she taught 9th and 10th grade studio art.  The following year, she moved to California where she taught elementary
art for Noteworthy Learning Incorporated. In this position she traveled to elementary schools throughout Orange County teaching studio art as an after school program.
She also held the position of educational program coordinator at Centennial Heritage Museum in  Santa Ana.  In 2003 she accepted a position at Canyon High School in Canyon Country, CA where she taught 9th-12th grade studio art and AP art history. 
In July of 2006, she made the move back home to Oklahoma to be closer to her
family. Before coming to Centennial Elementary, she taught 7th-9th grade art at Eisenhower Jr. High School in Lawton. She truly enjoys working with young students
again at Centennial. Her hope is to instill a love of art and art history in her students, inspiring them to be creative throughout their lives.

Melissa is happily married to PJ Malloy.  In January 2008, they celebrated the birth
of their beautiful baby girl, Magdelyn.