Melody Ng
Melody Ng
PhD Student
Education:
Master of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Legal Studies with a Minor in Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest:
Critical Environmental Justice, Critical Policy Analysis, Food Systems, Land Use and Management, Legal Geography, Political EcologyEmail:
ngmelo@g.ucla.eduMelody Ng (she/her) is a PhD student in the Urban Planning program at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the relationship between land tenure and community food access, land tenure and food sovereignty as environmental justice issues, and how legal and socio-cultural systems shape food and land systems and broader environmental outcomes.
Prior to UCLA, Melody held roles in nonprofit and research organizations focused on issues ranging from youth restorative justice to environmental sustainability. In recent years, her work has been more focused on community food systems and environmental justice issues more broadly — ranging from the protection of California Native American traditional gathering rights and promotion of Native land co-management opportunities on public and private lands to increasing access to healthy land for urban agriculture and community-oriented food production in Los Angeles.
Melody is a first-generation student who was born and raised in the deserts of the Inland Empire. She received both a Bachelors in Legal Studies and English, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
