Meet the Founder Melini — Accelerating Youth Success in 2026
Melini Moses is a distinguished former mainstream journalist who is the founder of Youth Express, a space for young minds.
Melini has been recognized as a CNN African Journalist of the Year when she worked as a radio broadcaster
If you’re deciding whether to back Youth Express – with your time, your partnership, or your money – you’re really asking one thing: Can you trust the person behind it? You can. Melini Moses built Youth Express from a career spent inside high-accountability environments – newsrooms, live broadcasts, and public platforms where credibility is everything. Now you get to benefit from that same standard: excellence, ethics, and outcomes.
Melini accelerating youth positivity
Youth Express exists for one purpose: to accelerate youth in every facet of life — career readiness, communication, digital skills, entrepreneurship, confidence, and decision-making that keeps our youth relevant in a fast-changing world.
Why Melini has the credibility to lead
You’re working with a founder who has:
- More than two decades of broadcasting experience across community, commercial, and public radio environments, where deadlines, accuracy, and public trust are non-negotiable.
- Worked at East Coast Radio (one of South Africa’s best-known commercial radio platforms), giving you exposure to professional newsroom standards and audience-first storytelling.
- Studied at Rhodes University, graduating in Journalism and Psychology — so you’re learning from someone trained to understand both information and human behaviour.
- Served in leadership roles as News Editor, which means you’re guided by someone who knows how to build systems, lead teams, and deliver consistent quality.
- Built and leads Express Yourself, a Level One B-BBEE communications and training company that equips individuals and organizations through leadership and communications training, coaching, and professional communication services.
- Beyond career history, you’re also looking at governance credibility: Melini Moses is a director at the Zoe Legacy Foundation, reinforcing a commitment to structured community impact.
Awards and recognition
You don’t earn trust by saying you’re excellent – you earn it when independent institutions recognize your work.
Melini Moses has been recognized as:
- CNN African Journalist of the Year
- National Press Club Journalist of the Year
- Vodacom Journalist of the Year
- The Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans, recognised for future-focused innovation and passion.
Melini is a global storyteller
Melini has been trusted to represent South Africa on international stages and report
in high-stakes situations. You are learning from a founder who has been:
- A World Press Institute (WPI) Fellow, selected to engage with global media outlets and leadership thinking in the United States.
- A Dag Hammarskjöld Journalism Fellow, awarded to report from the United Nations in New York, gaining first-hand exposure to global governance, diplomacy, and international development issues.
So when Youth Express speaks about “positioning you for the future,” it’s informed by global exposure, real reporting, and practical insight.
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