Christian Meza
Golf Regional Impact Officer, Folds of Honor
Turning a father's sacrifice into a lifelong mission for the families of America's fallen.
Highlights
- Folds of Honor Nevada, Co-founder
- Folds of Honor, Golf Regional Impact Officer
- Six-year national speaker
- University of Utah, Class of 2021
About
Christian Meza is one of Las Vegas’s most community-driven young leaders. As a teenager, he lost his father, Chief Master Sergeant William N. Kendall, a 30-year Air Force veteran and Bronze Star recipient, and turned that profound loss into a mission.
A Folds of Honor scholarship helped Christian attend the University of Utah, where he graduated debt-free in 2021. Rather than treat that gift as a transaction, he treated it as a debt of honor. Working alongside his mother, Pam, he helped launch the Folds of Honor Nevada chapter (the 33rd chapter in the national organization), planting a permanent flag for military families in his hometown.
He made the mission his career, serving as a Golf Regional Impact Officer on Folds of Honor’s national golf team and as a six-year national speaker for the organization, traveling the country to tell his family’s story and raise support for the scholarships that catch Gold Star families when they fall.
His is a model of young leadership that’s increasingly rare and increasingly needed: community-first, service-driven, and built for the long haul rather than the quick win.