06/02/2026
"Closing the gaps in infrastructure and health care requires sustained commitment—not just attention when things finally reach a breaking point."
2017 Flinn-Brown Fellow Daryl Melvin, P.E. founded Melvin Consulting, a civil engineering and professional services firm, to serve native-led nonprofits, tribal governments, and rural schools. Hopi and Navajo, his work is grounded in a lifelong connection to the land and the people who depend on it. He's experienced first hand what's at stake when rural and Indigenous communities are overlooked in public policy and envisions a future where young Arizonans are empowered to step into civic life and shape solutions, not just inherit the problems left behind.
Read more of Daryl's story here: https://www.flinn.org/flinn-brown-fellow-daryl-melvin/