Melissa Martin joined the Guttmacher Institute’s communications team in September 2010. She supports the communications team’s outreach and educational efforts, with particular focus on providing project support, assisting with website content management and curation, managing the Institute’s resource inventory, tracking and collecting media coverage and website engagement data for reporting to key stakeholders, and assisting in and coordinating dissemination and outreach activities. Prior to joining the communications team, Melissa served as the Institute’s receptionist/administrative assistant from 2006 to 2010. In that role, she worked closely with the communications team to create and maintain a database for managing subscriptions to the Institute’s journals and tracked requests for information and media citations. Melissa holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.