So, I'm leading with this because I'm really excited about it. My little TEDx talk got featured on the TED platform: https://www.ted.com/talks/melissa_moore_40_of_homeless_youth_are_lgbtq_what_we_can_do I previously served as Director of Organizing for Women's Rights and Empowerment Network, a nonprofit organization that advances the health, economic dignity, and wellbeing of South Carolina's Women, Girls, Gender Expansive People, and their families. I have built an organizing program at WREN from the ground up that has trained advocates across South Carolina about gender justice and connected them directly with decision makers. Thanks to these efforts, South Carolina continues to maintain access to abortion and gender affirming care, distinguishing itself as one of the few states in the region that upholds these essential services.I have spearheaded the development of a statewide organizing infrastructure that emphasizes sustainable and localized engagement in gender justice advocacy. Through this approach, I have led impactful campaigns that empower communities affected by these issues and enabled them to shape and pass policies that support their specific needs. Embedded in my organizing philosophy is the belief that meaningful change must involve the active participation and amplification of the voices of those most directly affected by the challenges at hand, guided by the principles of autonomy, independence, and solidarity- nothing about us, without us. Recognizing the pervasive influence of white supremacy and other oppressive systems, I am thoroughly committed to confronting and dismantling these structures both within myself and throughout all aspects of my work. I firmly adhere to the reproductive justice framework, advocating for the rights of individuals to make decisions about their bodies and lives within a broader context of socioeconomic and racial justice. My approach is further guided by the principles of abolition and transformative justice, unconditional positive regard, and community care.
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Digital Equity ConsultantSc Office Of Regulatory Staff Mar 2024 - PresentThrough this role, I drafted a digital equity strategic plan to deliver affordable broadband services, equipment and devices, and education on digital literacy and cyber security to South Carolina's low-income communities.
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Community Care Project LeadSouth Carolina Restorative Justice Initiative Feb 2024 - PresentSouth Carolina, United StatesThe South Carolina Restorative Justice Initiative (“SCRJI”) was founded to respond to the growing need for alternative pathways to justice in South Carolina. Housed within the University of South Carolina School of Law, our primary mission is to educate and promote dialogue about the concepts of restorative and transformative justice and to facilitate the development of restorative justice practices in our community.
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Director Of OrganizingWomen'S Rights And Empowerment Network Jun 2022 - Feb 2024Charleston, South Carolina, United StatesIn this role, I built statewide organizing infrastructure from scratch, engaging a 40,000+ member network with a focus on grassroots organizing and gender justice philanthropy. One of the most successful programs I implemented in 2023 was “Meet Me at the Statehouse,” a grassroots lobbying initiative that connected hundreds of constituents to their legislators. I facilitated WREN’s Gender Justice Advocacy Fellowship and popular education programs to teach policy advocacy, strategic planning, community healing modalities, transformative justice, disability justice, intersectionality, and grassroots organizing skills. Training is nothing without evaluation! I conceptualized and developed evaluation processes for the Gender Justice Advocacy Fellowship, popular education offerings and skillshares, relational organizing strategies, and grassroots outreach tactics. I launched statewide grassroots organizing campaigns to promote bodily autonomy and pass policies that empower women, survivors LGBTQ+ communities, Disabled people, immigrants, Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of the Global Majority (BIPGM), and gender expansive people. Since assuming this role, I have helped block 50+ bills that would ban gender affirming care, ban drag performances, and remove the agency of survivors seeking abortion care, while passing Paid Family Leave for the K-12 workforce, making SC one of the last states in the southeast with accessible abortion care and gender affirming healthcare. I managed the launch and growth of WREN’s first grassroots organizing program and supervised diverse team of staff, organizers, and interns for optimal performance. I built relationships with high net-worth individuals and foundations to increase the yield and impact of fundraising campaigns and collaborated in a cohort of Global South reproductive health, rights, and justice leaders. -
Lowcountry ManagerWomen'S Rights And Empowerment Network Aug 2019 - Jun 2022South Carolina, United StatesWithin my first 90 days of this role, I partnered with National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) to host a highly successful Lowcountry Summit, “Building Together: Harnessing Our Power for Gender Equity,” with Keynote Speaker, Brittany Packnett. I used the summit as a launch pad to establish a network of high net-worth donors, corporate partners, and national foundations to sustain WREN's work in the Lowcountry, SC region. I worked with the NWLC to co-author a research brief, "Data Reveal Multiple Barriers to Gender Justice in South Carolina" and a Change research poll of likely voters entitled "Our Voice 2020."During my time in this role, I recognized the harms of white supremacy in the reproductive rights landscape, which led me to develop a disability-accessible, anti-racist education curriculum that educated over 200 advocates and organizers around the state. In 2020, COVID devastated rural communities in SC. I secured a grant for a Gender Justice Tech Fund to deliver WIFI access to leaders in 8 rural areas during COVID quarantine. The widespread racial justice uprisings and protests related to the fall of Roe v. Wade inspired me to develop curricula and train 77 protest marshals, 20 police liaisons, 20 street medics, and 25 mental health crisis support volunteers to ensure that direct actions ran smoothly and as safely as possible. Lastly, I launched campaign and Day of Action for Bodily Autonomy which attracted a diverse group of over 300 South Carolinians.
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Director Of OperationsHousing For All Mount Pleasant Jan 2019 - Aug 2019Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United StatesHousing for all Mount Pleasant seeks to build attainable housing in my home town of Mount Pleasant, SC. In this role, I served as media spokesperson for the organization and handled finance, operations, grant writing, grant prospecting, and fundraising to expand attainable housing in Mount Pleasant, SC. I managed public-private partnerships, resulting in the development of Gregorie Ferry Towns, the first ever attainable housing complex in Mount Pleasant. I secured two-years of general operations support from the Town of Mount Pleasant and facilitated development and strategic planning processes for this startup organization. -
Executive DirectorWe Are Family Feb 2011 - Jan 2019Charleston, ScI built a legacy with We Are Family that has been the highlight of my career. I had the privilege to shepherd the organization from a period of fragility to a period of opportunity and expansion. I increased We Are Family’s funding by 4000%, supported countless teens who thought that suicide was their only answer, built services for unhoused youth where there were none before, provided training and technical assistance to over 500 individuals and organizations seeking to understand sexual orientation and gender identity, co-founded Trans Love Fund, the first micro-grant program for transgender residents in South Carolina, and brokered LGBTQ+ inclusive policies, including a trans-affirming policy for the City of Charleston. I helped design and execute the Charleston YOUth Count, the first study that focused on youth houselessness and food insecurity in Charleston County. In 2018, I opened a 14,102 ft2 resource center that included a queer thrift store (Closet Case), a TeleHealth clinic, on-site mental health services, a 10-workstation computer lab, a shower, laundry, and a co-working space for local service providers. All the programs I launched are thriving to this day.
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South Carolina State CoordinatorProvide Jan 2012 - Jun 2015Charleston, South Carolina AreaRecruitment of training sites and champions among community health, rural health, social services, perinatal health and primary care agencies; oversight of two-person staff to train agencies on full options counseling for unintended pregnancies; technical assistance to targeted agencies in the process of integrating or enhancing referrals into their institution’s practice and policies; Partnership with DHEC leadership to provide mandatory training on referrals for pregnancy options to all Title X funded family planning clinicians
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ConsultantSouth Carolina Access Initiative (Scai) Apr 2009 - Dec 2012Technical assistance to agencies that work with people experiencing unintended pregnancies; Development of partnerships with domestic violence groups and homeless shelters in SC for collaboration in a reproductive health research project; recruitment of appropriate medical student and health professional/legal associations
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Field Director/Interim DirectorSouth Carolina Equality Coalition Nov 2006 - Jan 2008Advancement of public policy in cooperation with legislators and community advocates; grant writing and reporting supervision of interns, fellows, and volunteers; coordination of voter education project to build base in rural counties; project management; meeting facilitation;
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Assistant To The Executive DirectorAlliance For Full Acceptance Aug 2005 - Nov 2006Member relations ; coordination of direct mail campaigns; development of radio show; media and PR work; recruitment of corporate sponsors
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StudentCollege Of Charleston 1995 - 2003
Mel Moore Education Details
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Sociology
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Sociology
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