Melissa Abu-Gazaleh
Youth Speaker, Founder and CEO of Top Blokes Foundation
Melissa Abu-Gazaleh is the Founder and CEO of the Top Blokes Foundation, a boy's social education organisation improving boys mental health and well-being.
Melissa believes that empowering young men to challenge and redefine their own thoughts and behaviours is key to reducing social issues including youth suicide, family violence, drugs, alcohol and other risk-taking behaviours.
Dedicated to improving the state of young men’s health in Australia, Melissa was named as NSW Young Australian of the Year in 2016, Illawarra Entrepreneur of the Year and more recently named in Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.