Melinda Arons

Biography

Melinda Arons is Senior Vice President of Social Impact for Participant Media, where she is instrumental in helping build campaigns in support of the company’s social impact strategy that address the most important issues of our time. Arons began her career at Fox News and then spent twelve years at ABC News as a producer for Good Morning America and Nightline, where she ultimately became the Chief Political Producer and Senior Producer. While at ABC she won a Peabody and was nominated for multiple Emmys®. In 2013, she joined Facebook to build its Media Partnerships team, and left in 2016 to join the Hillary For America presidential campaign as the Director of Broadcast Media. After the election, Arons ran the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop’s successful campaign to win the MacArthur Foundation’s “100 X Change” $100 million award, and served as the Series Supervising Producer for Katie Couric’s National Geographic docuseries America Inside Out. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University.