About Meylah

Meylah is devoted to building an online creative community for individuals to learn, share and support each other’s business growth online. We know how hard and time consuming being an entrepreneur can be, but with the proper skills at hand, we believe anyone can succeed!

Who We Are

Courtney Dirks is a recent escapee of the corporate world. With a background in commercial real estate, communications, and sales, she began alleviating her stress at work through creating handmade jewelry. After bouncing around the west coast for years, she settled in Seattle and has found great joy traveling, playing sports and interacting with the local creative community.

Ram Dutt is an engineer by profession who comes from a family of musicians and artists. He sees his own passion for music and art in his nine year old son, who has already inspired many with his art and has led Ram to foster creativity in many others. Ram and his family live in Seattle, which is full of life, energy and an enthusiastic creative community.

Jason Dirks is a business management consultant by day and a passionate outdoor photographer by night (or any other hour he can get outside and take pictures)! He and his wife live in beautiful Seattle, which provides the ideal landscape for his photographic interests: wildlife and nature, travel, sports and adventure.

How Meylah Came Together

Once upon a time, a group of creative individuals who, perhaps like you, hold down serious day jobs — decided it was time to create a new kind of creative community. Having found that it is hard to get your bearings in the online creative world, we imagined a place for like-minded people to share and advance creatively, while getting step-by-step directions to turn our passion into a business.

In talking about our own creative pursuits of painting, photography and handmade crafts, we found that we had faced similar challenges to building an online presence and marketing our work. Individually, we had come up with solutions that we all could use and by continuing to exchange information and connect with others in our local creative community in Seattle, we found that helping one another elevates the whole group. Whether you’re a painter, quilter, knitter, baker or candlestick-maker, you can benefit from sharing ideas, inspiration and experience.

Our Values