Melanie Dominguez

Melanie Dominguez is the organizing director for New York with the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice.

As Katal’s lead community organizer, Melanie manages the organizing team, works to build the membership base, and trains new organizers. She played a key leadership role in the fight to pass New York’s historic Less Is More parole reform legislation and currently co-leads Katal’s campaign to close Rikers. Prior to joining Katal, Melanie worked as a fellow with 350 Action and 350.org, where she played a critical role in prioritizing communities of color, which are often left out of the climate movement. She did this by conducting an outreach series not only in Queens, where she lives, but in other communities of color in New York City and beyond.

In 2019, she helped organize the 9/20 Climate Strike, when thousands of students joined together to demand climate justice in one of the state’s most significant climate actions.