Melissa Cropper

Melissa Cropper is the president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, a state federation representing 20,000 members in 60 locals across the state, including public school educators and support staff, higher education faculty and support staff, and public employees. Before being elected state federation president in 2012, Cropper was a library media specialist in Georgetown, Ohio, and president of the Georgetown Federation of Teachers.


Latest from Melissa Cropper

  • Elections

    Opinion: As a rural Ohioan, I see J.D. Vance for who he is

    Vance’s career has been built on a phony image of him as a product of and de facto spokesperson for poor, rural Appalachians, despite the fact that he was raised in a middle-class family in Middletown, Ohio – a city of about 50,000 people situated between Cincinnati and Dayton.