Melina is a New York City native who recently moved to Los Angeles. She previously worked in various forms of education, ranging from acting, to gardening, to queer sex ed. In 2020 she began volunteering with hunger relief organization City Harvest, working at their mobile markets and assisting with fundraising. After becoming so engaged with this work, Melina decided that this is what she wanted to pursue in Los Angeles, and is ecstatic that she gets to do so with Food Forward. In her free time, you can usually find Melina somewhere in the mountains, reading novels, or attempting to pet every cat in her immediate vicinity.