Melodie Garcia

Activist, Artist, Business adviser, Consultant, Musician, Philanthropist, Writer/Editor

Melodie Garcia is an unapologetic harm reductionist and consultant specializing in human services program design, grassroots organizational development, and community engagement. She helps government agencies develop trauma-informed programming for low-resourced and over-policed communities including drug users, sex workers, and people living unhoused. Melodie is also a policy analyst, writer, artist, and skillful facilitator. Melodie has a Master’s in Public Administration and brings important lived experience as a peer in behavioral health and sex workers’ rights advocacy spaces. Melodie is the Co-Director for New Moon Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of people in the sex trade.

anti-poverty policy, community engagement, DEI, direct services, facilitation, government consulting, harm reduction, nonprofit management, program design, public policy, sex worker rights, trauma-informed practice

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