Melinda is an author, speaker, media commentator, campaigner, and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualization, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and violence against women. Melinda is author or editor of seven books covering sexualization of young people, the harms of the pornography and sex industry, and violence against women and girls. Melinda is co-founder and movement director of the grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation. She is an Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, Hagar NZ and the Raise Foundation, a youth mentoring body. Melinda is also a senior lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney. She is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women.