PHOENIX REALTORS® awards Melisa Camp with 2021 REALTOR® of the Year Award
It is an immense honor to accept the 2021 REALTOR® of the Year award from the Phoenix REALTORS® and I will forever be grateful for being recognized for my work over the last decade in real estate, sustainability, non-profits, and education. I’d like to dedicate this to my Dad, my mentor, who has taught me the meaning of hard work and never giving up.
Phoenix REALTORS® awards Melisa Camp with 2021 REALTOR® of the Year Award
Jan. 21, 2022
PHOENIX, AZ –
Camp is a top-producing Realtor® with HomeSmart, Instructor & National speaker with Elite Education, and LEED-AP-Homes green building consultant. Camp serves on NAR’s GREEN REsource Council, NAR’s Sustainability Advisory Group, & 19 North’s Community Advisory Board where she is helping implement smart growth principles, trees, and transit-oriented design into the community. Camp has contributed to the updates for the GREEN designation course, including the new name for it: People, Property, Planet and Prosperity.
Former Board member of Arizona Association of REALTORS® (AAR), Camp served on the workgroups to update the AAR Solar Addendum. She also helped to make content improvements to the website https://sustainability.realtor, and helped to provide educational curriculum related to high-performance homes and green building science to integrate into C2EX (NAR’s Commitment to Excellence Program). Read more in the report and press release here: https://www.nar.realtor/sustainability/ESGR
Through her work with Elite Education and with the help of the Center for Realtor Education, Camp has written over 40 courses, trained thousands of agents, entire sales teams, architects, appraisers, legislators, utility company employees, and non-profit employees. Camp has spoke in cities like: Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston, Las Vegas, San Diego, Anaheim, and all over Arizona. She aims to educate and empower more people to make changes to their lifestyle to decrease consumption of energy, water, and chemicals and maximize sustainable features and benefits.
Camp was one of a handful of instructors who were hired to write, film, and produce 17 video micro-courses on topics like solar, construction waste, saving water, and eco-friendly home offices for the Center for Realtor Development at http://learning.realtor (her ‘pandemic passion project’). She served on the Board for USGBC AZ for 5 years and currently serves as an National educational course pro-reviewer for the US Green Building Council.
She is an EverGreen Award recipient from NAR, Environmental stewardship award recipient from Keep AZ Beautiful, and 4-time HomeSmart Diamond Club award recipient for sales volume. Nominated as ‘Favorite Realtor’ by HomeSmart & Evolve PR & Marketing for Arizona Foothills Magazine’s Best of Our Valley recognition. Arizona Department of Water Resources Water Awareness Month Prize Winner.
As a former elementary school teacher, Camp regularly volunteers in schools and co-chairs Green team at Madison Simis Elementary, where she helped to get HEPA air filters into every classroom in the entire school, held a ‘goat sneakers’ drive, & created a sustainability art contest. Also a former journalist for the Hammond Times, she was recently published for the top neighborhoods for public schools. https://azbigmedia.com/business/top-5-neighborhoods-with-the-best-schools-in-metro-phoenix/
Camp is an advocate for health care and volunteers with the Maricopa County Medical Reserve Corp. to help as a non-medical volunteer. She is President of a 501(c)3 non-profit she started in 2016 called Sustainable Real Estate Education and will be seeking grant opportunities in 2022. She has been a stay-at-home mother to 4 children for the last 12 years and a member of Phoenix REALTORS® for 13 years.
Podcasts
Sustainability for Home and Health with Melisa Camp NAR’s Center for REALTOR® Development
How Earning NAR's Green Designation Can Give You an Advantage in Your Business Todd Sumney, Chief Marketing Officer HomeSmart International
Education, Certifications, Designations, & Affiliations
Masters degree, University of Phoenix, B.A, ASU
LEED-AP
GREEN
Accredited Buyers Representative ABR
Performance Management Network PMN
Pricing Strategy Advisor PSA
E-pro
C2EX, Commitment to Excellence
Women's Council of REALTORS® member
Pearl Home Certification Coach
Madison PATS and PTM
Royal Palm Neighborhood Fourth of July Parade co-chair
National Wildlife Federation
Citizens Climate Lobby and Business Climate Lobby
Grants
V-Tech $25,000 computer lab and savings bonds to Bethune Elementary School & students
Green Apple Day of Service, CrossRoads Preschool Recycling Program
Green Apple Day of Service, Madison Simis, Outdoor Classroom
Phoenix REALTORS Smart Growth Level 1 Grant, Smart Growth Summit