Calyssa Zellars is a prolific attorney and writer. Her parents taught her the importance of resilience, personal courage and integrity, values they learned in their hometowns of East Saint Louis and the Gullah culture of Hilton Head Island.

Calyssa received a B.A. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan.

Inspired by her love for history, and her paternal Gullah and maternal midwestern roots, Calyssa founded Louis Hilton as a platform for preserving historiography, oral history and the written word.