MELINA MELGOZA is a PhD student at Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to Harvard University, she spent four years as public school teacher in central Los Angeles, California teaching Ethnic Studies and Social Studies. As a teacher, she worked to develop students' critical consciousness through Ethnic Studies and Critical Media Literacy. As an activist, she fights for a more just world. As a writer, she brings her words to life to tell her stories.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Melina Melgoza has been a fellow of the UCLA Writing Project and received numerous awards for her teaching. She was most recently awarded the Sal Castro Teaching Award, for promoting, inspiring, and encouraging youth leadership and education around social justice, civic engagement, equity and access to higher education. She is also most recently published in "Unmuted: Voices of Resistance and Resilience," through the UCLA Writing Invitational and self-published her own book, "Border Scars." She resides most of the year in Cambridge, Massachusetts and often travels back to her home-city of Los Angeles, California. She has two dogs Gaia Kahlo and Loki Matisse. |