Melvin is a former recipient of service through UMFS, including the Treatment Foster Care program. He is also very involved with Project Life, which helps youth by providing critical skills they will need when they transition out of care. Within Project life, he has facilitated workshops and engaged in various speaking engagements to help build up other foster youth. Melvin currently attends Old Dominion University where he is studying Human Services with a minor in Psychology with the intention of working on Capitol Hill as an elected official in the future. While working to obtain his bachelor’s degree, he has created an organization called Foster-U which seeks to help foster youth strive for higher education. Melvin is a resilient young leader with the determination to create world change.