Melody Kramer is a product manager at ProPublica, working on crowdsourcing and engagement tools.

Previously, she worked in digital strategy and audience engagement for newsrooms, the federal government and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia. She started her career as a humor writer and director for NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me.”

Most recently, she helped lead a pop-up newsroom to support journalists in Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, providing critical text-only information to residents who lost internet access, and was the librarian-in-residence for the Knight Election Hub’s election desk, where she connected journalists with academic election experts.

Kramer completed a Nieman Visiting Fellowship looking at alternative models of membership in public radio. For many years, she wrote a column for Poynter focused on news innovation.

Kramer has a library degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she focused on digital archiving.