Melanie and I worked together a couple of decades ago at what was then the Queens College Worker Education Extension Center. Melanie was my beloved colleague, mentor, role model, and friend whose humble demeanor belied her many accomplishments as an activist, poet, and educator. Her radical openness to the full complexity of ideas, her willingness to embrace contradiction, her commitment to activism, and her deep humanity are, for me, a lasting legacy I feel privileged to hold. Melanie will always be present.
—Emily Schnee