Melissa Sáenz Gordon and Molly Salas (Soft Power Vote)

Bio

Melissa Sáenz Gordon is an award-winning digital storyteller, multimedia producer, and cultural worker based in Queens. Her work sits at the intersection of the arts, community organizing, and urban planning.

Molly Salas (she/they) is a music supervisor and community advocate based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. In their work across film and advertising, they champion voices underrepresented in these spaces. She helped successfully landmark Bed-Stuy’s newest historic district in 2024—expanding her advocacy into housing justice, community land trusts, and collective power-building.

In 2020, Sáenz Gordon and Salas cofounded Soft Power Vote, a civic engagement initiative working to make voting more accessible in NYC for Millennial and Gen Z voters.