Marena Manzoufas was a founding member of SBS and was committed to multicultural public broadcasting in Australia. Working for the Public Service Board in Canberra in the 1970s, Marena was actively involved in the development of Australia’s multicultural policy. She worked on the NSW Government’s 1978 Ethnic Affairs Commission Report and the 1979-1980 Federal Inquiry into multicultural television. Marena had a longstanding commitment to advancing multicultural broadcasting and has made a lasting contribution to its development in Australia.