Let your Councilmember know you support Melissa for the open Council position!

Fighting for the Future—Together.

Melissa Chaudhry is a tireless champion for equity, sustainability, and opportunity for all.
Will you stand with her?

A Vision Rooted in Justice

Melissa Chaudhry is a tireless worker, grassroots organizer, community leader, and passionate advocate who has dedicated her career to service and advocacy, and her life to upholding the principles of liberty and justice for all.

From tackling housing insecurity to uplifting marginalized communities on multiple continents, Melissa has unmatched lived experience and understands the struggles working families face every day. Her work has always been about making democracy real for those who have been left behind.

This campaign is powered by a diverse coalition of neighbors, families, and advocates who believe in justice, opportunity for all, and a thriving future for the all our communities in King County. Together, we’re writing the next chapter of our story—one rooted in hope, resilience, and progress.

Melissa's Background

Melissa Chaudhry is an exemplary hard worker and consensus-maker with over a decade of experience addressing critical community needs. Her work spans permanently affordable housing, advocacy in Olympia, union support, green infrastructure, sustainable agriculture, innovative advances in health, living wage jobs and economic development.

Melissa's professional journey includes roles in the managerial, retail sector, nonprofit fundraising, and as a union postal worker - as well as in frontline addiction treatment, cutting-edge affordable housing initiatives, political advocacy for marginalized communities, and grassroots community development. She has also pursued advanced studies in Systems Science, collaborated with national leaders on complex societal issues, and developed materials on cutting-edge geopolitical security and global humanitarian affairs for the State Department.

During her recent campaign for Congress, Melissa provided campaign materials, civic engagement, and voter education in a record-setting 14 languages and earned over 90,000 votes in a few short months. Her all-volunteer team raised over $250,000 and she beat out both Republicans and Independents in the primary election. Her teams distributed over 200,000 flyers, mailers, banners, campaign materials, etc. - and she herself walked over 10 miles in a day leafletting, while heavily pregnant! Her son was born just recently - and she's still here fighting for the people.

Internationally, Melissa has been involved in economic development, healthy farming, environmental resilience, poverty alleviation, sustainable agriculture, climate innovation, cottage industries, skills training and technology transfer initiatives across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South/Central America. Her commitment to co-solving economic, environmental and social challenges - together - is driven by urgent optimism and the belief that we possess both the tools and the knowledge to secure a thriving future for our shared planet.

Melissa's personal experiences, including her husband's service-connected disabilities and systemic discrimination faced as an immigrant, fuel her dedication to being a "meaningful Representative" for marginalized and disenfranchised communities. As the daughter of a US Navy doctor and granddaughter of an immigrant and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Melissa's family background is rooted in principles of service, responsibility, and dedication to democracy.

Immigration is always a beneft to the receiving society. Just as an example, Melissa's husband's father and grandmother became refugees fleeing immediate and devastating violence in the middle of the night, arriving in rags. They worked their way up in their new country for decades, eventually founding a free healthcare clinic that continues to provide accessible, quality medical care in that country to tens of thousands of people annually, and will for generations to come - giving back in gratitude for the sanctuary and opportunity they received. His grandmother's descendants are now thriving and economically contributing on three continents.

Including this one. Back in the 1980s/1990s, my husband's family opened a clinic to provide pay-what-you-can medical care to farmworker families, including undocumented folks, in Yakima, WA. Creating justice and opportunity for immigrants is always to the economic benefit of the host nation, especially in a country like the USA with an aging poulation and low birth rate. We need a young, capable, vibrant workforce - and that comes from immigration.

Despite this fact, our immigration system currently contains intensely racist and discriminatory policies - here's (https://www.aclusocal.org/en/carrp/) one important example of unconstitutional bias in USCIS, against fully qualified naturalization applicants.

As a mother in a BIPOC household, Melissa is deeply invested in the future of all children and believes in the necessity of visionary leadership and bold action to address current challenges. She upholds fundamental American principles of liberty, justice, equality, and democratic governance, viewing them as actionable mandates for each generation to form a more perfect union.