Amy Mello

Amy Mello has nearly 20 years experience working on campaigns to expand LGBT equality. She has served as Field Director for five statewide campaigns to win marriage for same-sex couples, including three years working to protect Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation marriage rights from legislative attempts to repeal the law or place it on the ballot for public referendum. In addition to Massachusetts, she has helped to lead marriage campaigns in Connecticut, California, Rhode Island and Maine, where she led field and voter targeting programs for the country’s first-ever popular vote victory for marriage.

From 2013 through 2015, Amy worked as the Field Director at Freedom to Marry, helping to develop advocacy and public education campaigns to secure legislative victories and support litigation strategies in more than a dozen states and nationally.

Most recently Amy served as the Senior Vice President of Campaigns for Freedom for All Americans, the bipartisan campaign to secure LGBT nondiscrimination protections. Amy was part of many successful programs during her time at FFAA, including helping to pass protections in the Virginia legislature, defending transgender nondiscrimination laws on the ballot in Massachusetts and leading a national coalition of organizations dedicated to educating federal policymakers about the need for protections.

Amy currently lives with her husband Paul in Vomero, a neighborhood in Naples, Italy, where she enjoys a view of Mt. Vesuvius and is working hard to improve her Italian language skills.