Melody Corvalán

Melody Corvalán Granddaughter of Mexican migrant field workers is a San Diego native. Melody was the first in her family to attend college. She was accepted to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City where she majored in International Studies. She spent her 20’s living in Argentina where she brought back a big souvenir, her now 13-year-old son Diego. Melody is the daughter of a retired Mariachi musician, her son has taken on the family tradition and is now a 5th generation trumpet player. Melody, however, has no musical talent and instead has learned she possesses other useful talents. Melody has been planning weddings and events for 15 years, moving back to San Diego in 2016 to work for the Hotel del Coronado as the head of their weddings department. Melody didn’t come out of the closet until her 30’s which prompted her to dive into nonprofit work benefitting the LGBT community including the SD Human Dignity Foundation, the SD Human Rights Campaign as well as the SD LGBT Center.