Trevor Kyle Melton

Trevor K. Melton is a resident of Voorhees Township (Camden County) New Jersey.  He is a graduate of Temple University (B.S.) 1990, Rowan University (M.A.) 1996 and Wilmington University (M.Ed) 2001.  Trevor has been an educator in various school districts, an entrepreneur, a coach, counselor, mentor and friend to many of our children and young adults in the State of New Jersey.  He is currently employed at the New Jersey Department of Education and is a Graduate Level Professor of Education at Neumann College, Holy Family University of Pennsylvania and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Trevor is also the President of TKM HOOPS Sports Management Company since 1992, which coordinates corporate, high, middle and elementary basketball leagues, summer camps and college exposure tournaments. 

Trevor’s professional experience began as a Counselor/ Mentor at the Youth Advocate Counselors of Camden County where he provided mentoring, individual and group counseling to at risk children.  In the Camden City Public Schools and the Lower Camden County Regional High School District #1, Trevor was a Teacher of the Handicapped.  While in those positions he developed and implemented the School to Work, Student Government, and Self Contained Behavior Modification Programs.  Also, while at the Lower Camden County Regional High School District #1, Trevor was a Supervisor/ Guidance Counselor. At the Willingboro Public School District, Trevor was the Interim Elementary School Principal and the Middle School Assistant Principaland he was the High School Assistant Principal in the Egg Harbor Township School District. 

In his current employment at the NJ Department of Education, Trevor has been an Education Program Development Specialist, Office of Leadership Development, Coordinator, and the Abbott & Intervention Services, Special Assistant to the Director.  Trevor currently serves as the Commissioner of Education’s designee on the Amistad Commission, Juvenile Justice Committee and Arab American Commission and also serves as the department’s liaison to the Governor’s Summer Heat Program, New Jersey High School Graduation Campaign and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  In these positions, Trevor has been able to use his extensive professional and educational backgrounds to assist the New Jersey Department of Education in meeting its goals and objectives while displaying an acute ability and sensitivity for meeting the needs of our school age children.