Author: Melanie Meyer

A native of Herdorf, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Melanie began her career in the Human Resources Department of the U.S. Embassy, Germany, where she worked as an HR Assistant and later managed the day-to-day operation of the American Personnel Support Unit for all Agencies at post. She started her own business as a professional English/German freelance translator specializing in Marketing, Market Research, Retail, Cosmetics, Fitness and Health in 2010 and joined the American Translators Association in 2011. Some of her noteworthy projects include the translation of a 100,000+ word website for a leading supplier of nutritional sports supplements, marketing brochures for global cosmetics companies, creative product descriptions for a leading supplier of CrossFit fitness equipment, patient education materials, patient and physician surveys as well as countless market research surveys. She also translated the book “Thai für Anfänger” from English and Thai into German. Today, Melanie lives in Alexandria, Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. She founded Word Flow LLC in January 2023 and recently passed the ATA Certification Exam from English into German. In her free time, she enjoys Middle Eastern dancing and attending rock concerts. For more details, please visit word-flow.com.