Born in Singapore and raised in suburban Connecticut, Melinda knew from a young age that she wanted to change the world with cinema and storytelling. At Harvard College, she studied psychology and economics, and took on development internships at Plan B and Anonymous Content. After graduating in 2019, she moved to LA where she landed a desk at Warner Bros. TV in Drama Development.
Melinda switched to the producing side of things, as the TV Creative Executive at Viola Davis' JuVee Productions, where she worked on development of shows such as an adaptation of Octavia Butler's WILD SEED, an epic Asian fantasy with Gemma Chan attached as EP, an HBO series set in the world of the Black Elite, and an Amazon drama series about Bruce's Beach with Plan B co-producing. In 2022, Melinda became the Director of Development at TM Instruments, a film & tv production company with a first-look deal at Anonymous Contents, and projects set up at Apple TV, Paramount TV, Tyler Perry Studios, and Universal Studios (specifically a reboot of Van Helsing in the Universal Monsterverse).
This past year Melinda pointed staffing of an Apple series writers room . Melinda seeks to elevate and champion the voices of women, people of color, and those in the LGBTQ+ community.