No matter the circumstances, it’s hard to keep Mellie Kaufman down.
She was born and brought up in the Emerald City. Mellie and her four half siblings were raised by their mother. The family struggled with poverty throughout Mellie’s childhood and, as Mellie explains, she had a strained relationship with her mother. She says her mother’s abusive parenting caused her to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, which she continues to battle today. ...