Who We Are
The Partners: Eileen Morgan and Keith Melville

Keith is a professor, consultant, writer and workshop leader. For 20 years, he has been a member of the core faculty of the Fielding Graduate University, a Ph.D. program for mid-life adults. In his work as professor at Fielding, and in other settings (including the Chautauqua Institute), he has designed and led hundreds of seminars and workshops, including workshops on midlife development and change.

One of the themes of his writings – which include five books and more than 50 magazine-length reports on a wide variety of topics – is personal life style choices, and cultural influences that shape those choices. This was the topic of his first book, Communes in the Counter Culture, (New York: William Morrow, 1971), which was a featured Book of the Month Club selection. He is also the author of Marriage and Family Today, (New York: Random House, five editions) which for years was a leading college text. He was the senior writer of a volume on The Quality of American Life, prepared for the Carter White House as part of the work of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980’s.

He was one of the founders of the National Issues Forums, a consortium of community-based discussion groups that now convenes groups in more than a thousand communities nationwide.

For 18 years, Dr. Melville was Senior Vice President of the Public Agenda Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan firm started by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and pollster Dan Yankelovich which examines public issues and interprets the public’s views on those issues.