[1] Born in Santa Cruz, California, Mennite trained at Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre, with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center, and Pacific Northwest Ballet.
At the age of 13, she began summer session studies at Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy.
In 2000, at age 16, she spent one year on a full scholarship with Houston Ballet II.
[1] Mennite joined the Houston Ballet in 2001, at the age of 17, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2008.
She appears frequently as a guest artist and also performs with Whim W'Him in Seattle.