About the Filmmake

Melissa Mummert is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and advocate for incarcerated women. She decided to make a documentary about the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and drug conspiracy laws while serving as a chaplain intern at a Federal prison in California.

Perversion of Justice is her first documentary. She has had an eclectic career, including serving as a case manager for homeless youth in East Los Angeles, writing for websites and entertainment magazines in Hollywood, CA, and

running a domestic violence education program for female inmates at the Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte, NC.

Melissa currently coordinates an advocacy and counseling program for children with incarcerated parents in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds degrees in philosophy and theater from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and a Master of Divinity Degree from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, CA. Mummert lives happily with her husband Jay and her fiesty young daughter Annie.