Media Center

Videos

  • Coping With the Cost of Health Care:

    What Is The Public Voice?

    Video Podcast

  • "We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."

    Martin Carcasson

  • DDEX

  • Ibtesam, Rhanda Slim

    Mideast Network

  • "In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."

    Alberto Olivas

  • "When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."

    Moerangi Falaoa

  • "You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."

    Louise Spiegel

  • "Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"

    Katy Harriger

Podcasts

  • David Mathews discusses Education Research
  • Speaking of Politics Interview


Melinda Gilmore, Program Officer and Senior Writer/Editor


Contact Melinda

Melinda Gilmore is a senior editor and writer at the Kettering Foundation. She does editing, research, and writing for foundation and other publications.

She has worked extensively on several books, including For Communities to Work (2002), Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools? What Early Communities Have to Tell Us (2003), and Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming Our Democracy (2006). Melinda is a member of several foundation workgroups, including project histories and records management. Melinda also coordinates and provides editorial support for a research project examining the impact of government policies on communities and citizens, specifically looking at the 1970s through the present.

Before coming to the foundation, she taught composition courses at the University of Dayton, where she received her master’s degree in English. Melinda also holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Wright State University. She has done editing work for nonprofit organizations, doctoral dissertations, journal articles, scientific and technical reports, and local political campaigns.