Melina López leads Developer & Communities Marketing for Latin America at Google Cloud. She is also an Inclusive Marketing Consultant and trainer for global marketing teams at Google. In 2022, she pioneered Inclusive Marketing Insights to better represent plus-size people in media, in partnership with NAAFA, after evangelizing global marketers and producers about the origins of fat activism amongst queer feminists in conferences like 3%, Lesbians Who Tech, and through publishers such as Forbes and AdAge.
Melina’s work with the trans community gained notoriety when she helped make Google Photos a more inclusive product by centering the community at the research and prototyping stages of the product development process, partnering with GLAAD. As an ally, she has organized TransConf (internal annual meetup for trans googlers) since 2020 bringing in more Latinx/Black+ representation. Melina also created Google’s first podcast about DEI in Tech, in Spanish and Portuguese (top 5% most shared worldwide on Spotify in 2022).
Melina also outspokenly contributes with organizations like Out&Equal, ADCOLOR and Reprograma (Brazil) to center marginalized voices. Her DEI work was recognized by Out & Equal, Webby Awards and she’s been selected by universities such as Stanford, Georgetown and UNTREF for LGBTQ leadership and masters programs.