Melissa Bonine

Melissa (Bruns) Bonine is the Chief Operating Officer at GDA Wins. Melissa is an operations and finance professional with 18 years of operations experience in democratic politics and in the nonprofit sector. Melissa started her political career working in the House of Representatives, and has since worked for the City of Evanston, Illinois; Senators Jim Webb and Chris VanHollen; and as a political appointee in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to joining GDA Wins, Melissa was the founding COO at Accountable.US, a watchdog group fighting corruption.

Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago (a life-long Bears and Cubs fan), Melissa received her B.A. from Bradley University and her Masters in Public Policy from George Mason University.