Ms. Melanie Wong

Ms. Melanie Wong is the Associate Dean at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS). She graduated from Pepperdine University at the age of 19, with a double major in Communication and Foreign Languages, and spent a semester studying in Heidelberg, Germany. Ms. Wong holds a master’s degree in international management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and is currently a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University.

While accompanying her military spouse, Ms. Wong leveraged her learning agility to create a protean career with roles spanning different job functions across the entertainment, IT, and education sectors. While stationed in South Korea, she worked as an overseas production manager for a U.S. animated television series. In the D.C. area, she served as an IT program manager for TRW (now Northrup Grumman) and a Sr. Brand Manager for a web professional services firm. After moving to West Point, Ms. Wong taught business and communication courses at Mount Saint Mary’s College and developed business curricula for Cengage. Ms. Wong also taught Organizational Behavior at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University.

Ms. Wong joined the faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in 2007, where she taught courses such as Psychology for Leaders and Human Resource Management. Her teaching was recognized with the department’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2008, and she completed USMA’s Master Teacher Program, eventually being promoted to Assistant Professor in 2009. In 2013, she transitioned to her current role at USMAPS.

Her research interests focus on adult and organizational learning and development.