Melanie Radley, managing director of mlr.com a communications management firm providing strategy planning and communications consulting for the service economy.  She is an award-wining public relations, public affairs executive with 22 years senior management experience in the corporate sector, public service and government.

She has served as a board member of civic, educational and not-for-profit organizations.  She was appointed by the Manhattan Borough President to Manhattan Community Board 7, where she served as co-chair of the Uniform Services Committee and was elected co-chair, and secretary of that Board, and has served as chair of the communications task force.  She has been a Board member the Ohio State University President's National Advisory Council on Public Affairs, and past president of the Women Executives in Public Relations Foundation. She is currently a member of the Program Advisory Committee for the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center and Chair of the former Women's Committee, the Lighthouse Guild.  She is currently a teacher in the Senior Tech Program at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, Manhattan, and the Adult Education Program, Bronxville, NY. 

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