Melissa Malcolm-Cullison
Principal, Partners For Good, LLC
Melissa Malcolm-Cullison, is the principal owner of Partners For Good, LLC. Partners For Good specializes in food strategy consulting with a focus on grants, government funding, refrigeration infrastructure and mobile. She has a national partnership with Burkett Equipment, where she supports clients in building the proper refrigeration infrastructure that is required to maximize donations of fresh food – including dairy.Â
Melissa is a life-long advocate for dairy. After most recently serving as Director, National Sales and Field Marketing at the Milk Processors Education program (MilkPEP), responsible for the national got milk? campaign. In this previous role for over a decade, she oversaw industry relations, retail partnerships and the development of fresh milk’s path forward in America’s food banks. She has spent the past 10 years concentrating on hunger relief programs in partnership with the USDA, Feeding America, Dairy Management Inc. and the National Dairy Council, resulting in hundreds of millions of lbs. in donated and purchased dairy products. She has built programs like The Great American Milk Drive, the first of its kind national consumer donation program for fresh fluid milk and supported the roll-out and adoption of USDA’s first fresh milk commodity purchase programs under TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program).