Melody Bray is a first-generation immigrant, successful realtor, attorney, and activist. She graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor in Arts in Criminology from the University of Florida with a concentration in psychology and criminal deviance.

After graduation, Bray attended Emory University School of Law as a Child Policy Fellow. During her legal career, she worked in many areas of litigation, including general corporate litigation, serving as a law clerk in Superior Court handling felonies and death penalty cases, and representing state and county governments in state and federal courts, including advising and defending law enforcement and emergency services personnel.

After practicing law for ten years, Melody earned her real estate license and started Made ATL, a small business specializing in buying and selling real estate in Atlanta. The flexibility of her new job also gave her the opportunity to spend more time sowing into her community.

She has served as Board Chair for Beloved Atlanta, one of the city’s only residential treatment programs for women exiting sex trafficking, where she oversaw the expansion of the program to four residential homes serving women in Southwest Atlanta. She also served on the board of Urban Recipe, an organization that provides food stability to the economically fragile, and she facilitated a partnership with Atlanta Public Schools to increase student performance by providing reliable food security for needy children and their families. She also served on the Board for ATL Collective, an organization supporting local artists and helped create sustainable gap-funding for artists in need.

In 2020, Bray co-founded The Georgia 55 Project, Atlanta’s largest grassroots get-out-the-vote organization, which has served thousands of voters and enabled them to vote. In 2022, Melody continued toward her goal of serving the people of Atlanta when she launched her campaign to be the State Senator of District 38.