About Melinda Uno

Born in Colorado Springs, Melinda Uno is a yonsei Japanese American woman who is still searching for her calling in life. She is attracted to the visual arts and considers herself to be a lifelong student in many disciplines including photography and writing.

She was raised in San Diego, California and studied the fine arts of dance and music at an early age. When she was 15, Melinda traveled across the United States of America in the color guard of the Esperanza Drum and Bugle Corps. At the age of 18 she moved to Santa Cruz, CA then to San Jose, CA where she obtained an Associate of Arts Degree in English Language and Literature at West Valley College in 2009. She then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 2010. After graduating, Ms. Uno moved to Adjara in the Republic of Georgia to teach English as a volunteer in the village of Merisi and the city of Batumi. She returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2013 to work in specialty coffee and later arts administration. Her desire to work with local artists led her to help open the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco and volunteer at The Crucible in Oakland. The volunteering led to an administrative position and a deeper look into the industrial arts community in the Bay Area. It was a surprise to everyone, not the least to herself, that Melinda eventually began working in various capacities in the architecture and design industry.

Melinda currently resides in San Francisco, CA.