Melanie Fox

Legislative Program Assistant on Domestic Issues

Melanie Fox was born and raised in Sweet Home Alabama, where she also attended Samford University in Birmingham. She became acquainted with the Quakers and FCNL through the Birmingham Friends Meeting while in college. Her awareness and interest in poverty issues developed as a result of several mission trips to Honduras throughout high school and college. After graduating from college in May 2010 with a degree in Sociology and Spanish, she spent time in Virginia working with Guatemalan immigrants and in Arizona volunteering with various immigrant-focused humanitarian aid organizations and learning about immigration issues in the context of the U.S.-Mexico border. She feels that her position as a Program Assistant at FCNL is a wonderful opportunity to use her experience doing more direct, community based work in order to pursue systemic change. Her time at FCNL will be spent working with Ruth Flower on immigration, Native American issues, civil liberties, and human rights issues.

When she is not trying to change the world, Melanie enjoys being outdoors, eating too much healthy food, and would spend every waking hour dancing if she could (especially contra dancing and salsa dancing!!).

Listen to Melanie's speech to FCNL's Annual Meeting in 2011 for more on her and her work at FCNL.