Melz completed their first degree in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Leeds and graduated from a masters in Social and Political Thought from the same University. Throughout their studies they have been actively committed to social justice work both within the University and beyond it, they served as the Education sabbatical officer at the University of Leeds and took on a number of key roles in the NUS and National student movement. Melz is also the Founder of the Free Black University, a new project aiming to offer radical education outside of the institution. They are an activist who has worked in a number of spaces such as Black Lives Matter UK, decolonising education, and trans visibility. They are a multifaceted artist and academic, their work explores the radical Black imagination and building transformative worlds both within and outside of themself. Melz always endeavours to take this radical, queer, decolonial, Black feminist analysis forward in all aspects of their life and work.
