Expertise
Writer, copywriter, well-known parenting blogger, social media community manager, expert in Grants Management best practices, software, compliance, policies, workflow. Intensive knowledge of private foundation regulatory and compliance issues and laws.
Current
Development Director at Solpath.org
Co-founder of PearSoup.com (Self-employed)
Owner of Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood (Self-employed)
Member of BlogHer
Owner of Wonderbelly
Owner of The Mommy Blog (Self-employed)
Past
Community Manager at Trusted Opinion, Inc.
Senior Product Consultant at The Arlington Group
Grants Manager at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Education
University of California, Davis, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1990–992
University of California, San Diego. Communications, English Lit 1987–1989
Websites
Summary
Mindy Roberts is a writer, blogger, and a member of Federated Media’s Parenting and Entertainment Federations.
“FM looks for passion, integrity, authority, and strong community support in all the sites we invite into our network. An FM site has influence not because its author is well known, but because the author has earned the trust of an influential community.
Witty, sarcastic, and always engaging, Mindy chronicles her life, and that of her children. She tackles the good and the bad with a broad stroke and a sense of humor that give her writing depth and an emotional pull. Besides her obvious, tender love for her children, The Mommy Blog is a place where Mindy reveals some of her fears and disappointments, and talks about her hopes for the future. Readers have laughed and cried along with her, finding inspiration in Mindy’s tales.
Known for its wide-ranging vocabulary and sharp insight into matters both personal and global, The Mommy Blog is a showcase for Mindy’s unique spin. She’s quick to highlight other bloggers. With her poise (we assume from her modeling background) and her inner strength (from her tomboyish childhood in Chicago, perhaps), Mindy is a staunch ally.”
Mindy has also just published her first book, Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood.
“Mommy Confidential is a naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, relationship Chernobyl, familial Waterloo, and job instability. All through it her sense of humor and her sharp, edgy, witty writing keep her together and upright.”
Experience
Development Director, Solpath.org. (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry), October 2007 — Present.
An advisory committee was formed in March 2007 to guide Solpath’s initial planning. This committee consists of a working group of staff from several philanthropic foundations attempting to understand better the technology issues and challenges facing grantmakers.
Co-founder, PearSoup.com (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry) July 2007 — Present.
When we think of pears, we think of something sweet, and cool, and comforting. It is the shape we make when we hug our children around our knees. It’s how things go sometimes, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s a pear-shaped world, and we love it. Pear Soup is a collection of the funny things our children say (yes, we’ve been writing them down), and we want to hear what your little ones have to say as well. Each quote on Pear Soup is genuine (we couldn’t possibly make this stuff up) and attributed by first name and age - an archive of children’s bloopers and honest revelations. Even if they don’t seem especially funny today, they will be funny someday. Trust us.
Author, Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry), September 2006.
Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood began as an online journal that documented the near-death of Mindy’s second child and evolved over the years into a hilarious diatribe centering on her chaotic life.
Member, BlogHer (Non-Profit; Internet industry), 2005 — Present.
Owner, Wonderbelly (Privately Held; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry), March 2005 — Present. Wonderbelly is the umbrelly for The Mommy Blog, Pear Soup, and Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood.
Owner, The Mommy Blog (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry), February 2002 — Present.
Take a woman fresh out of college, plop her down in Silicon Valley, saddle her with a mortgage, let her ride the tech boom, give her three babies in four years, slap her with the tech bust, watch vicariously as her marriage disintegrates, end her career, and hand her a computer. What do you get? Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood, a memoir in real time based on Melinda’s wildly popular weblog, The Mommy Blog. The Mommy Blog has become so popular that magazines from Redbook to Parenting have picked it as one of their favorite destinations to visit on the web.
Community Manager, Trusted Opinion, Inc. (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry), October 2006 — April 2007.
As Community Manager for www.TrustedOpinion.com, Melinda is a Janet of all trades. She is a well-known blogger (www.themommyblog.net) and author (Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood) with a knack for bringing communities together, usually with a blender. A member of John Battelle’s Federated Media Parenting and Entertainment Network, she is also an online community advisor to ClubMom, Johnson & Johnson, The Disney Internet Group, and MothersClick.com, where she is also a resident blogger. Mindy lives and breathes technology and tries her best to use her powers for good.
Senior Product Consultant, The Arlington Group (out of business) (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry). October 2005 — July 2006.
Grants Manager, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1993 — 2005.
