Melanie Lindsay

Melanie Lindsay is a Senior Project Coordinator with Family Voices focusing primarily on the FELSC project that provides technical assistance, support, and training to the 51 statewide Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2Fs) in all 50 states and DC.  She has thirteen years of experience as a non-profit family organization leader. Prior to entering her role with Family Voices National, she was the Project Director for Family Voices of Tennessee’s Newborn Hearing Program for nine years. In 2010, she founded the chapter of Hands & Voices in Tennessee and worked as Director there for three years. Melanie sits on the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Community Advisory Council (CAC) Diversity Workgroup in Memphis.  She is a Certified Special Education Advocate and a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Juvenile Court in Memphis, Tennessee.

Melanie is extremely enthusiastic about ensuring individuals and families have equal access to all services and support, that individuals have autonomy over their own care, and understand their rights.  As the parent of four bio and two bonus kids, three belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community and four having their own medical diagnoses, she understands the importance of lived experience and parent perspective within systems of care. Two of her children are still living at home, both of which have Autism, deafness, and mental health issues. Melanie is passionate about Family Voices’ mission and considers it her privilege to work with an organization that values lived experience and aims to engage families at all levels.

Outside of work, Melanie is working on her degree in IO Psychology, enjoys cooking, researching various topics, gardening, & spending time with her kids, husband, & pets.