Melina is a Director of Australia’s Secretariat for the International Year of Co-operatives and a member of the voluntary board of management – the IYC 2012 Steering Committee. Melina has written on co-operatives and the social economy for a decade for international and national publications (four years as Associate Editor of the International Co-operative Alliance e-Digest). Melina has wide experience engaging social and mainstream media on how we build social capital through profitable social businesses.