In this time of great turbulence and great promise, your interest in how I may serve you brings me joy. I am dedicated to co-creating with you new paths to a unified process of community building that springs forth from a shared vision for racial, social, economic, environmental, and spiritual justice for all.

Melinda Salazar, Ph. D. is an educator, organizer, researcher, and strategist whose lifelong personal and professional work centers Indigenous sustainability, social, economic and environmental justice, women’s equality and radical change. She served as the Co-Executive Director for The Truth Telling Project, a grassroots community-centered truth-telling and reparations organization, founder of Seacoast Peace Academy, a principle-based community of learning that believes that peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures and the earth, a development strategist for Life Comes From It, a grant-making movement circle rooted in restorative justice, and a professor in Education and Women and Gender Studies.

As a first-generation woman to Turtle Island, Melinda come from Colombian/Muisca/Ukrainian ancestors. Her gift is to foster in others vision for “Two-Eyed Seeing,” the marriage of Western and Indigenous approaches to ecosystem health and community development, a trauma-informed approach to healing and repairing an unsettled and deeply polarized society, and a consultative approach to building individual and collective empowerment.

In the spaces Melinda creates for educational settings or for seeding and growing an organization from the grassroots up, her beliefs are rooted in a spiritual framework that acknowledges a twofold moral purpose of transforming individual character while contributing to the advancement of society, and the core-values to bring about meaningful social change.

Dr. Salazar is available to provide you and your community with mission-driven leadership skills and creative, holistic, and integrative community development strategies to contribute to an ever-advancing civilization.

Work, when performed in the spirit of service, is worship.