Melissa DiGrande earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she also completed a certificate program in business management at The Wharton School and served as an executive editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. While at Penn Law, Melissa worked as a legal intern for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and as a student mediator in the Penn Law Mediation Clinic.
Prior to law school, Melissa worked as a JusticeCorps intern at the Los Angeles Superior Court, where she helped self-represented litigants file and present their cases in small claims court.