Michelle Ciulla Lipkin

Michelle Ciulla Lipkin has served as Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education since 2012. Michelle has helped NAMLE grow to be the preeminent media literacy education association in the U.S. She launched Media Literacy Week in the US, now in its 10th year, developed strategic partnerships with companies such as Thomson Reuters, Meta, YouTube, and Nickelodeon, and restructured both the governance and membership of NAMLE. She has overseen seven national conferences, created the National Media Literacy Alliance for teacher membership organizations, and made countless appearances at conferences and in the media regarding the importance of media literacy education. Michelle is an alumnus of the US Department of State’s International Visitors Program (Australia/2018). She regularly serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Media Literacy. She sits on the Advisory Council for the ML3: Librarians as Leaders for Media Literacy initiative led by Project Look Sharp. Michelle was the recipient of the 2020 Global Media and Information Literacy Award given by UNESCO.