Melanie Dulfo, MSW is the Director of Community Health Education, at Apicha Community Health Center. She is a Licensed in Social Worker with concentration in Community Organizing and Advocacy. She started her career as a Peer Educator in the Women's Project at Apicha CHC in 2008 and then became its Project Coordinator in 2010. The project focuses on reducing the HIV risk for Asian American women. Her volunteer work in the Asian American community has concentrated in Filipina women's issues, migrants and workers’ rights. She has volunteered with various grassroots community organizations to organize Filipino migrants in fighting labor exploitation and building with other oppressed communities here in New York City. Melanie is a past Community Co-Chair of the New York State HIV Advisory Body.