Melissa Williams is the executive producer of Second Peninsula, a production company that creates video content for PBS NewsHour and other organizations. She is co-founder and co-chair of Notes & Words, a benefit concert series for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland that has raised more than $12 million since its inception in 2010. She has a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School.