Donnell Probst

Executive Director, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)

Donnell Probst is the Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), where she leads efforts to strengthen the role of media literacy in PK-12 education. Her work focuses on supporting educators, fostering collaboration across sectors, and developing scalable approaches that help learners navigate information, media, and emerging technologies as informed and engaged participants in society.

Donnell brings more than two decades of experience working at the intersection of education, information access, and community engagement. She has served as a rural community college librarian, a faculty associate at Arizona State University teaching digital media literacy, and a special education advocate and parent trainer for Missouri’s Parent Training and Information Center.

At NAMLE, she has led a period of strategic growth focused on expanding educator professional learning, strengthening national partnerships, elevating youth voices, and increasing access to media literacy education through initiatives such as Media Literacy for All, the Amplify Youth Summit, and U.S. Media Literacy Week. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.