Melissa Boughton joined Southern Coalition for Social Justice in 2021 and serves as Communications Director. Previously, she led communications at Duke Law’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice and spent a decade as a journalist. Her reporting included courts and crime beats at NC Policy Watch and The Post and Courier in Charleston, where she was part of a team named a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the Walter Scott killing. A Texas native, Melissa has lived in North Carolina since 2016 and is a 2010 graduate of the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas.
