Melissa Milton-Pung is a Policy Research Labs program manager at the Michigan Municipal League. As a federally qualified architectural historian, her expertise is in place-based economic development initiatives, historic rehabilitation, and heritage tourism. She holds a bachelor’s in public history from Western Michigan University and a master of historic preservation from the University of Kentucky College of Architecture, where her research created the Commonwealth’s first historic property tax credit. Melissa is also adjunct faculty in historic preservation at Eastern Michigan University and a past president of the Michigan Historic Preservation Network (MHPN).

Prior to joining the League in 2017, Melissa spent more than a decade as economic development and historic preservation project manager for Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor) and worked in cultural resource consulting.