Christy Flikke joined GRW in 2017 as our Financial Officer. Anything that GRW does that deals with money or numbers comes across her screen for analyzing and completion. She processes the money, prepares budgets and board reports, pays the bills, reconciles accounts, manages project receipts and pays our staff along with a long list of other items.

Christy has a Finance Degree and worked with high net worth clients and their businesses at U.S. Bank Private Client Group and before that in Credit Administration at Marquette Bank. She started as a Financial Analyst after college and ended her time at U.S. Bank as an Account Executive underwriting and managing mainly commercial loans. Most recently she worked with a local mortgage lender, both as an underwriter and account executive. Christy loves that her work here at GRW helps make a difference in the world! After spending ten years raising her three amazing children, she is thrilled to be back in the workplace using her Finance Skills.

When Christy is not working, you can find her hanging out with her kids at their sporting events, biking, skiing, playing board games, traveling or going on adventures. Thanks for taking the time to check out what GRW is all about.

As a qualified expert in the state of Minnesota she testifies as an expert witness on domestic violence in criminal court cases. She wrote her master’s thesis on the effects of domestic violence on children and wrote her doctoral dissertation proposal to address supervised visitation, children and domestic violence. She has contributed to numerous publications related to supervised visitation, children, and domestic violence. Recently she co-wrote a curriculum and DVD for working with men who batter as fathers entitled, “Addressing Fatherhood with Men Who Batter”. She also co-authored a curriculum and DVD with Ellen Pence, PhD and Laura Connelly for working with women who have used violence in intimate relationships entitled, “Turning Points: A Nonviolence Curriculum for Women”.

Melissa has been selected for numerous roundtable advisory discussion groups for the Office on Violence Against Women through the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Violence related to: differentiating types of domestic violence, custody, working with domestic violence offenders, and batterers intervention programs. Most recently she was named to a National Consulting Group on Batterers Intervention Programs and as a National Advisory Committee Member for Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation for survivor based healing. In addition, she participated at two United Nations Expert Meetings related to domestic violence.