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Melina Nakos

Melina Nakos is a writer and filmmaker from California. She will be studying film and television production at New York University and hopes that her films have a positive impact on the injustices currently seen in the world.

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Teen Finds Disability Isolating Without Peer Network

By: Melina Nakos | April 6, 2016

No matter how many friends she has, Melina Nakos still has no one to share her struggles and frustrations of being a double amputee. This piece is the first in Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, an initiative by and about teen girls with disabilities.

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