Pulido, Meli Calvo, 1966-

Meli Calvo Pulido was born in Mexico City and immigrated to the United States with her parents and eight siblings. In 1975, at 11:00 p.m. she woke up to the Silver Slipper on the Las Vegas Strip. She was raised on Las Vegas’s 28th Street, where she helped her family and their neighbors by becoming the neighborhoods unofficial translator. The need to serve her community and the hardships faced by her family and the families around her translated into her work after she graduated from what is now Southeast Career Technical Academy.

She worked for the City of Las Vegas in 2011, after a twenty-five-year tenure in human resources. Throughout her life she has continued to give back to Las Vegas by serving in non-profit community service for decades. She attended the Premier National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI), where she trained in Washington D.C. and at Harvard University. Her non-profit work has heavily focused on education success and hunger in lower income communities and in obtaining fair access to healthcare for all.

She was the executive director of Project-150, whose mission is to offer support to homeless high school students in Southern Nevada in order to ensure that they graduate. She has two daughters that have also been actively helping various causes in Southern Nevada.