Gente de Bushwick: Melo’s Block Shop

Melodi Conze, owner of Melo’s Block Shop, wants to offer services to bilingual children no matter their background. Photo provided from Melodi Conze.

This monthly feature on Soy Bushwick introduces the faces in the Latinx community of Bushwick. 

Who: Melo’s Block Shop is a Bushwick-based online retail store that sells educational posters in both English and Spanish on Amazon. Melodi Conze, founder and owner of Melo’s Block Shop is also an English teacher at a high school in Bushwick.

What: Melo’s Block Shop focuses on offering educational tools for toddlers to learn the alphabet, days of the month and more that can be used both at home and in the classroom. The Bilingual Bear is a cartoon that’s featured on the products and resembles the shop’s mission. Conze combined both her teaching and Afro-Latinx background to create this small business.

Here we speak to Conze, on Melo’s Block Shops background and connection to Latinx culture. Continue reading …