Melodie Garcia is a bi-coastal harm reductionist and consultant specializing in human services program design, grassroots organizational development, and community engagement. Melodie has 12+ years’ experience organizing and providing education around reproductive health, harm reduction, and direct service provision. She helps government agencies develop trauma-informed programming for low-resourced and over-policed communities including drug users, sex workers, and people living unhoused. Melodie is also a policy analyst, writer, artist, and skillful facilitator. Melodie has a Master’s in Public Administration and brings important lived experience as a peer in behavioral health and sex workers’ rights advocacy spaces. Melodie is a Board Member for SWOP Behind Bars and is the owner of Orange Cap Consultation in Seattle.