Melis­sa Rap­pa­port Schif­man is the founder of Green Inten­tion LLC and the Edi­tor-In-Chief / Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Thought Leader for Build​With​Rise​.com. As a LEED Accred­it­ed Pro­fes­sion­al, she led the LEED cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of sev­er­al mil­lion com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial square feet. She holds her MBA and MA in Pub­lic Pol­i­cy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, a BA from George­town Uni­ver­si­ty, and lives in Min­neapo­lis Minnesota.