Melissa founded sustainable innovation think tank, agency and incubator Societás in 2004 and she is co-founder of sustainable music & media enterprise Musecology. Further board roles include creative director of online green glossy TheGINLady.com and director of social enterprise Watering Hole, which unites creative talent with entrepreneurs from the sustainable sector

Melissa is co-founder of three annual international visual arts awards - Creative Graduate Prize, Iconique Societás Awards and The Message is The Medium sustainable arts awards. She has also teamed-up with environmental scientist Matt Prescott to create New Frontiers – a sustainable design awards/education programme launching later this year in partnership with a number of leading design, architecture, engineering and scientific institutions

In addition to her role as Sustainable Innovation & Social Enterprise Editor for Sustained magazine, she sits on the juries of several awards, including the International Design Awards and the Dandelion Awards and she is on the steering group of the WWF’s ‘Awakenings’ project