Melissa Espana

Before becoming the Social Media Editor at Block Club Chicago, Melissa was at WGN News as a digital content producer, covering breaking news, crime and trending stories. She started her career as a producer at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, where she covered the 2016 Iowa caucuses.

When she’s not in the newsroom, Melissa is doing all things pumpkin spice on Splash of Spooky — a website she created that shares Halloween news all year.

Melissa is a Chicago native and a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.