Melody Gamba
Melody is a mental health counselor, registered dance movement therapist, educator, dancer, choreographer focused on embodied anti-oppressive practices.
Melody Gamba MA, R-DMT graduated from Lesley University with her Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Dance/Movement Therapy and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. She was the recipient of the Davis Fellowship from Salve Regina University for her thesis research utilizing dance/movement therapy as a tool to dismantle racism and injustice in service learning and invited to deliver the keynote address “Embodying Brave Space: A Mental Health Informed Classroom” for their annual conference on Youth Mental Health (2019). She co-presented a full day intensive at the American Dance Therapy Association's (ADTA) Annual Conference with the Diversity in Motion Research Collective (2019) and was awarded the “Leader of Tomorrow” by the organization. She is currently a program therapist at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI where she integrates expressive arts therapy within the Young Adult Partial Hospital/IOP unit curriculum and is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina University in the department of Theater, Music, and Dance. She is a member of the ADTA Multicultural and Diversity Committee and Shared Space Collective and plans to further her work by pursuing her PhD.
