Jill Shepherd is the Senior Director of Membership at ProPublica.

Prior to ProPublica she oversaw the membership program for Chicago's NPR-member station, WBEZ. Twice she's presented as part of a panel on sustaining membership programs for the Public Media Marketing & Development Conference (2010 in Fort Worth, Texas and 2013 in Denver, Colorado). In 2011, she participated in creating a “Social Media Best Practices” manual along with a small group of public media professionals across the country as part of a Corporation for Public Broadcasting project on social media. In 2012 she taught a seminar for online fundraising and email best practices at the Center for Nonprofit Success in Chicago.