Melia Smith

Melia Smith joined YES! In 2022 as the Foundation Relations Manager. Previously, she’s done fundraising for social and human services organizations and has broad spectrum experience in the fundraising field. She’s excited about and invested in the movement to make fundraising and philanthropy spaces anti-racist and more equitable and writes about her experiences and critiques of the industry on the Community-Centric Fundraising hub.

She earned a B.A. in Sociology from Pepperdine University and grew up in Las Vegas, NV (and proudly does not know how to play any table games). She is abandoning the heat of southwest for the snowbanks of the Twin Cities in fall of 2022.