Melanie is a NBCUniversal Launch and Telemundo 2022 Fellow , a Ryan Murphy Half Initiative Mentee and a two-time Directors Guild of America Award recipient for her films ‘South Arcadia St.’ and ‘STAND’. Her work has been featured on attn:, BET, Billboard and Refinery29. She recently produced ‘ The Disruptors’ , a showcase of TV writers of color who are trans, nonbinary, disabled and undocumented or formerly undocumented. She edited ‘Appalachian Futures’ for directors Sally Rubin and Ashley York, which is cu
Melanie live-produced the digital film showcase: Beyond Status (2023, 2021), which highlights migrant storytellers who aim to construct new narratives about who they are as migrants in today’s political and personal contexts. She has collaborated with The Center for Cultural Power on other digital live events such as the Climate Woke Summit (2021), The Disruptors Showcase (2020 & 2021) and the No Going Back: A Covid-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide (2020).
In 2020 she was an organizer for Street Dance Activism and their Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation and served as the chair of the Human Rights committee for Young Entertainment Activists , where she also produced the Hollywood Climate Summit (2020).