Melinda is an author, speaker, media commentator, and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing s*xualisation, objectification, harms of p*rnography, s*xual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Melinda is author/editor of seven books (no. 8 pn boundary-setting for girls forthcoming) covering se*xualisation of young people, the harms of the p*rn/sex industry and violence against women and girls.

Melinda has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions and many other TV and radio programs. She is co-founder and movement director of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of s*xploitation (www.collectiveshout.org). Melinda is an Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, Hagar NZ and the youth mentoring body the Raise Foundation. She is also Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney and named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women.