Patricia smith melton biography

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Patricia Smith Melton is the founder, former executive director, and board chair of Peace X Peace, an international nonprofit organization that uses the.
American Playwright, Photographer, Poet, Philanthropist.

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Global citizenship is
both attitude and action.

About Us

The Melton Foundation promotes and enables global citizenship as a way for individuals and organizations to work together across boundaries of place and identity to address global challenges.

The Melton Foundation is an international 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the USA, and a leading proponent of global citizenship practice worldwide. Established nearly thirty years ago with the credence that collaborations across boundaries can forge sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, today, our presence spans six global citizenship hubs in Chile, China, Germany, Ghana, India, and the United States of America.

We make global citizenship accessible at the grassroots by offering Fellowships to young change agents in order to develop their capacity as effective and ethical leaders, equipped to act locally, with a global context in mind. Our programs harness unique pedagogies ranging from experiential learning, intercultural collaboration, ethical leadership, and design thinking, to tr

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Relive the genesis of the Melton Foundation (1991-1996)

October 22, 2021 byMelton FoundationinDiversity, Equity, Featured, Fellow Updates, Medium, Storytelling

Before the over 500 fellows around the world, the dozen international events, and the impactful collaborations and projects connecting across continents, the Melton Foundation started little. With only eight students -four in Germany, four in the United States-, the Foundation took the first steps towards what would turn into decades of impactful collaboration and cross-cultural learning programs that would benefit thousands of students around the globe.

The Melton Foundation was founded in 1991 by entrepreneur William (Bill) Melton and activist Patricia Smith. As the decade was marked by crucial events worldwide (economic and social change in India and China, the end of the dictatorship in Chile, the fall of the Berlin Wall, etc.), Patricia and Bill took the step to build an organization that would help bridge gaps on intercultural communications, to enable a cross-cultural collaboration towards the wor

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Peace X Peace

Nonprofit organization

Location
Organization logo
Formation	2002 (2002)
Legal status	Nonprofit
Purpose	Building peace through online communications
Region served	World
Membership	18,000
Founder	Patricia Smith Melton
Past Executive Directors	Dr. Sarah McCue, Dr. Pat Morris
CEO	Kim Weichel
Staff	6
Website	www.peacexpeace.org

Peace X Peace (pronounced “peace by peace”) is a nonprofit women's organization founded in 2002 that promotes building peace through online communications.

History

Peace X Peace was founded in 2002 by Patricia Smith Melton, who gathered experts in peace and women's rights from around the world (including Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist; Susan Collin Marks, the Australian-born co-founder of Search for Common Ground; and Fatima Gailani, the Afghan head of the Red Crescent) to elaborate a women's response to the September 11 attacks.