Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster University Department of Medicine Social Service Worker,  Compass Community Health.

Receiving a certificate in counselling techniques from Mohawk in 2001, Nora Melara-Lopez went on to graduate with honours from Mohawk’s Social Services Worker program in 2009. While at Mohawk, she won the John A. Booth Memorial Award for continuing education in 2008. She then earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Ryerson University in 2014, making the dean’s honour List in 2013 and 2014.

For more than 25 years, she has worked at Compass Community Health (formerly North Hamilton Community Health Centre) as a social worker, client advocate, and counsellor. She was also the diversity leader and the program coordinator and manager of the immigrant and refugee health program. In addition, she is a commissioner of affidavits and an accredited interpreter for the Courts of Ontario, acting as a Spanish interpreter for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

In 2017, Nora became an adjunct assistant clinical professor in McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine.