Pastor Mel Roberts (she/her)

Campus Pastor

Pastor Melinda “Mel” Roberts is the Campus Pastor and Executive Director of Tucson Wesley.  Mel has been doing ministry and life with college students and young adults in various settings for 30 years.  She is a passionate advocate for community development, equality for all and social justice. Mel is dedicated to empowering individuals and fostering positive change in the communities in which she serves.

The greatest joy of Mel’s life is her son, Kasey, whom she adopted from Ethiopia in 2014.  They love to travel together and make memories on Disney cruises.

Shay Thomas (they/them)

Building Manager & Yoga Curator

At twenty-eight, Shay Thomas, a non-binary black artist focuses on impacting Arizona and Texas communities to live in the truest versions of their mental states of happiness and freedom. Mental Happiness to them is joy. Joy to be free. Joy to be them. In Tucson, Arizona, Shay, Co-Founded a black owned business named Queer AF; whose focus is to cultivate safe and intentional spaces/experiences for Queer/Trans, Black, Indigenous and people of color through dance, art and somatic healing. Here at the Campus Christian Center Shay enjoys sharing the duty to mentor students and support them through achieving their highest physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual states of wellbeing.