Coalition Members

The Media and Democracy Coalition is composed of over 30 Voting Member organizations that work on media, communications technology, and telecom policy in the public's interest. Each Voting Member organization appoints its delegate to the Coalition, and this individual helps guide our strategic direction.  New Voting Member organizations can only be admitted by a vote of existing Members.  Other key staffs of Voting Member organizations engage with the coalition in daily activities, such as coordinating on joint activities and sharing expertise.   

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Access Humboldt, Humboldt, CA

Access Humboldt is a non-profit, community based, public service media organization serving the residents of Humboldt County. We provide airtime free of charge on the local cable TV channels and online, and offer media production training, facilities and equipment. We promote free speech and community media - by the people; for the people. Programming is accepted on a fair and nondiscriminatory basis, and will be aired without editorial control. Read more about Access Humboldt's mission and vision.

 

Access Humboldt Voting Member Delegate: Sean McLaughlin, Executive Director

Digital ecologist Sean Taketa McLaughlin serves as executive director of Access Humboldt - a community based organization providing local access media channels, broadband network connections, digital media production resources, training and support for local governments, tribes, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and residents of Humboldt County, California USA. Read more of Sean's Bio.

 

Alliance for Community Media

In order for democracy to flourish, people must be active participants in their government, educated to think critically and free to express themselves.  Founded in 1976, the Alliance represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media center throughout the country. The ACM works to protect the interests of these access centers and those who use PEG facilities and equipment to advance their causes through cable television and the Internet. Read more of ACM's mission.

 

 

Alliance for Community Media Voting Member Delegate: Sylvia Strobel, Executive Director

Sylvia Strobel joined the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) in August 2010 as its Executive Director.  Before joining the ACM, Strobel served as President and General Manager of the Pennsylvania Public Television Network Commission, where she restructured network operations, served as the liaison to the Governor’s Office and Pennsylvania General Assembly, and oversaw funding and grants for the state’s eight public television stations.  Read Sylvia’s full bio here.

 

Benton Foundation

The Benton Foundation works to ensure that media and telecommunications serve the public interest and enhance our democracy. We pursue this mission by seeking policy solutions that support the values of access, diversity and equity, and by demonstrating the value of media and telecommunications for improving the quality of life for all. Read more of Benton's mission.

 

Benton Foundation Voting Member Delegate: Cecilia Garcia, Executive Director

Cecilia Garcia first joined the Benton Foundation in 1997. She most recently served as executive director of Connect for Kids. Her broad range of experience includes work as a press secretary for a Member of the U.S House of Representatives. As communications director for a national Latino nonprofit organization, she worked to create greater avenues of access for the Latino community into the political process through leadership development programs, legislative conferences, a seven-site electronic town meeting and the creation of the organization's web site. Read more of Cecilia's Biography.

 

Center for Digital Democracy Washington, DC

The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) is recognized as one of the leading consumer protection and privacy organizations in the United States. Since its founding in 2001 (and prior to that through its predecessor organization, the Center for Media Education), CDD has been at the forefront of research, public education, and advocacy on protecting consumers in the digital age. Learn more.

 

Center for Digital Democracy Voting Member Delegate: Jeff Chester, Executive Director

Jeff Chester is the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), a Washington D.C. non-profit. CDD’s mission is to foster democratic expression and consumer protection in the digital media era. His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy provides an in-depth examination on the threats to the public interest from both old and new media consolidation. Bill Moyers has called Chester the "Paul Revere" of the media reform movement. Read more of Jeff’s bio.

 

 

CCTV Center for Media and Democracy Burlington, VT

Since 1984, CCTV has worked to promote democracy, alternatives to mainstream media, and economic opportunity for our fellow citizens. CCTV's Center for Media and Democracy includes: Cyberskills Vermont, Channel 17, and CCTV Productions. Learn more about CCTV.

 

Voting Member Delegate CCTV: Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Executive Director

Lauren-Glenn Davitian is Executive Director of CCTV Center for Media & Democracy based in Burlington Vermont. For more than twenty years she has worked to secure free speech and public access for Vermont communities through the start up and protection of 43 public access TV channels across the state. In an effort to secure public access to all technologies of the information age, she worked to establish the state's first community technology center (1995) and is now actively involved in state and national policy efforts. Read Lauren’s bio. <Link to bio from file>

 

Center for Media Justice Oakland, CA/ New York, NY/ Chicago, IL

Our mission is to create media and cultural conditions that strengthen movements for racial justice, economic equity, and human rights.

We work at the intersection of media and social change to remove institutional barriers to media equity and ensure that movements for justice have a public voice—so communities of color and America’s poor have a fighting chance. Learn more about CMJ.

 

Voting Member Delegate for CMJ: amalia deloney, Grassroots Policy Director

amalia coordinates the media policy initiatives of the Center for Media Justice and the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net).  She has over 15 years of experience in community and cultural organizing, with a specific interest in human rights, cultural rights and traditional knowledge.  At CMJ, amalia uses her extensive experience for field-building, community-building, and policy advocacy. Read amalia’s bio.

 

Center for Rural Strategies Whitesburg, KY

The Center for Rural Strategies seeks to improve economic and social conditions for communities in the countryside and around the world through the creative and innovative use of media and communications. By presenting accurate and compelling portraits of rural lives and cultures, we hope to deepen public debate and create a national environment in which positive change for rural communities can occur. Learn more about the Center for Rural Strategies.

 

Voting Member Delegate Dee Davis, Founder and President of Center for Rural Strategies

Dee Davis is the founder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies. Dee has helped design and lead national public information campaigns on topics as diverse as commercial television programming and federal banking policy. The Center for Rural Strategies leads the steering committee of the National Rural Assembly and publishes the Daily Yonder, an online newspaper focused on rural life and work.
Read Dee’s full bio here.

 

Common Cause National

Common Cause is dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that serves the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard in the political process. Learn more about Common Cause.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Dawn Holian-Iype, Director of Online Strategy

Dawn Iype is Common Cause’s director of online strategy, overseeing the organization's e-advocacy efforts and online communications and fundraising. She joined Common Cause in 2005 as director of media research and public education.  In that role, she researched and wrote about media reform topics, including the digital television transition, media consolidation, public broadcasting, and telecommunications.  In 2006, she authored the award-winning report, “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Telecom Industry Front Groups and Astroturf.” Read Dawn’s bio.

 

Common Frequency Davis, CA

Common Frequency is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to innovative new community and college radio. By providing free and low-cost aid to regular people educating themselves to be the media, Common Frequency (CF) has been supporting the launch of grassroots stations since 2006. Learn more about Common Frequency.

 

Voting Member Delegate for Common Frequency: Gavin Dahl

Radioactive Gavin joined Common Frequency for a year of capacity building supported by Digital Arts Service Corps and The Transmission Project. An Evergreen College grad with ten years experience in commercial and community radio, his public interest advocacy has led him to lobby Congress in DC, testify in state Legislative committee, speak truth to the FCC and expose NAB hypocrisy. Read Gavin’s bio. 

 

Consumer Federation of America National

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is an association of non-profit consumer organizations that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, advocacy, and education. Today, nearly 300 of these groups participate in the federation and govern it through their representatives on the organization's Board of Directors.
CFA is a research, advocacy, education, and service organization.

 

Voting Member Delegate for CFA is Mark Cooper, Director of Research

Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America, a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and a Fellow at The Donald McGannon Communications Center of Fordham University. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four-dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. Read more of Dr. Cooper’s bio. <Link to page once its made>

 

Consumers Union National, Offices in NY, DC, CA, and TX

Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves. The organization was founded in 1936 when advertising first flooded the mass media. Learn more about CU.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Parul Desai, Communications Policy Counsel

Parul P. Desai is communications policy counsel for Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports. Working out of the Washington, D.C. office, Parul manages the organization’s advocacy efforts on cable, wireless, telephone, and Internet policy. She is also responsible for working closely with federal policy makers on telecommunications and media law and policy. Read Parul’s bio.

 

Free Press Florence, MA/ Washington, DC

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism and universal access to communications. Learn more about Free Press.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Misty Perez Truedson, Associate Outreach Director

Misty Perez Truedson, Associate Outreach Director, conducts strategic communications, offline and online organizing and outreach activities to advance Free Press’ legislative and movement building initiatives. She works with community-based organizations, public interest groups, academics and other allies to encourage participation in Free Press campaigns and events, with a particular focus on the SaveTheInternet.com campaign. Before joining Free Press, Misty was the statewide grassroots organizing coordinator for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree in community development and planning from Clark University. 

 

Future of Music Coalition Washington, DC

Future of Music Coalition is a national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want. Learn more about FMC. < http://futureofmusic.org/about>

 

Voting Member Delegate: Casey Rae-Hunter, Deputy Director

Casey Rae-Hunter is a musician, recording engineer, music journalist and public policy wonk. He regularly speaks on issues such as new business models for artists, telecommunications policy and intellectual property at conferences, universities and in the media. He routinely works alongside leaders in the music, arts and performance sectors to bolster understanding of and engagement in key policy and technology issues, and has written dozens of articles on the impact of technology on the creative community. Read Casey’s bio.

 

Main Street Project Minneapolis, MN

Main Street Project works to document the strengths and challenges facing people in increasingly diverse rural and urban communities, give voice to their hopes and aspirations, and provide creative and practical tools to turn possibilities into realities. Through programs focused on the need for media justice, economic development opportunities and broader civic participation, our commitment is to strengthen local capacity for problem solving - so that answers to challenges come directly from the community. Learn more about MSP.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Steven Renderos, Program Director, Media Justice

Steven Renderos leads Main Street Project's media justice and community building efforts, including the Minnesota Digital Justice Coalition and our collaborative work with the nationwide Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net). He brings more than seven years of community organizing and training experience, and more than ten years of filmmaking and media production experience to our organization. Read Steven’s bio.

 

Media Access Project Washington, DC

Media Access Project is a non-profit, public interest law firm and advocacy organization working in communications policy. For over 38 years, MAP has promoted the public interest before the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Courts, fighting for an open and diverse communications system that protects freedom of expression, promotes universal and equitable access to media outlets and telecommunications services, and encourages vibrant public discourse on critical issues facing our society. Learn more about MAP.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director

Andrew Jay Schwartzman has directed Media Access Project’s policy efforts since June, 1978. He is recognized as one of the leading media attorneys and has appeared on behalf of MAP before Congress, the FCC and the courts on issues such as cable TV regulation, minority and female ownership, employment in the mass media, equal time laws and cable open access. Read Andrew’s bio.

 

Media Alliance Oakland, CA

Media Alliance is a media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. Learn more about Media Alliance.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director

Tracy Rosenberg has worked as Media Alliance's Executive Director since 2007. She has organized and advocated for a free, accountable and accessible media system, focusing on the protection and sustainability of alternative media outlets monitored the mainstream media for accuracy and fair representation and facilitated the training of numerous nonprofit organizations and citizen's groups in effective communications. She also worked at Pacifica Radio as a program coordinator, facilitator and community election supervisor. She currently sits on the boards of the Media and Democracy Coalition, the Alliance for Community Media Western Region, the Pacifica Foundation and Common Frequency. 

 

Media Literacy Project Albuquerque, NM

Our mission is to advance education and advocacy for media justice. Our vision is a world where all people and communities have affordable access to utilize any and all media tools to ensure their self-determination and a healthy media landscape. Learn more about MLP.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Andrea Quijada, Media Literacy Project

Andrea Isabel Quijada is the Executive Director of the Media Literacy Project. With more than a decade of experience as a media literacy trainer, and more than 18 years as a community organizer, Andrea has a deep passion for media justice. She presents nationally and internationally on the impact of media on culture, politics, and technology, serves on the Leadership Team of the national Media Action Grassroots Network, and is a 2010 alum of Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices. Read Andrea’s bio.

 

Media Mobilizing Project Philadelphia, PA

The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) exists to build a community media infrastructure for the growing movement to end poverty. Through the powerful combination of communications and organizing, we clarify the issues at stake and inspire and unite those who have a vested interest in change. By sharing our stories, we end the isolation of our communities and the sense that our struggles are separate from each other. Together, we develop the leaders and the networks we need to address the root causes of the problems we face. Media and communications act as the central nervous system of this movement -- a broad-based social movement to end poverty, led by poor and working people united across color lines. Learn more about MMP.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Todd Wolfson, Co-Founder

Todd Wolfson received a dual Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the fields of Anthropology and Education and is joining the Rutgers University Faculty as an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Media Studies in the fall of 2009. His research is focused on the role of new technologies in local, national and global social movements. Todd is also one of the co-founders of Philadelphia's Media Mobilizing Project (MMP), which is an organization dedicated to using new communication tools to organize around issues of poverty, education and housing. Read Todd’s bio. <Link to bio>

 

Media Justice League San Antonio, TX

We are diverse media justice organizers collaborating with communities at the grassroots, advocating for social justice and providing support to organizations through the strategic use of music, media, and technology. Learn more about MJL.

 

MJL Voting member Delegate DeAnne Cuellar, Executive Director

DeAnne Cuellar, co-founder of the Media Justice League (formerly the Texas Media Empowerment Project (MEP)), is an independent media maker, musicians’ union organizer (Local 782), and lifelong social justice activist. Based in San Antonio, Deanne is a national leader with MAG-NET, the Media Action Grassroots Network. Read DeAnne’s bio. <Link to bio>

 

Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) Asheville, NC

MAIN is a nonprofit community network using integrated media technologies to expand the local public sphere and to support: participatory democracy, citizen access to media, independent journalism, local cultural and artistic expression, locally owned businesses, social and economic justice and environmental stewardship. Read more about MAIN.

Wally Bowen is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) in Asheville, N.C. Bowen is a nationally known advocate for local self-reliance and social capital formation via local ownership of media infrastructure. Read more of Wally’s bio.

 

National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture National/San Francisco, CA

NAMAC fosters and fortifies the culture and business of independent media arts.  Through dialogue, collaboration, research and advocacy, we connect, organize and develop organizations. Learn more about NAMAC.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Belinda Rawlins, Policy Strategist

Belinda has been active in the community media and technology movement for over 25 years. She started out at an all-volunteer radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she programmed a late night radio show for 18 years and began to understand the importance of community based media in society. Read Belinda’s bio.

 

National Federation of Community Broadcasters National, Oakland, CA

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national membership organization of community-oriented, non-commercial radio stations. Large and small, rural and urban, eclectic or targeted toward specific communities, the member stations are distinguished by their commitment to localism and community participation and support. Learn more about NFCB.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Maxie C Jackson III, President and CEO

Maxie C Jackson III serves as President & Chief Executive Officer for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).  Jackson has served as Senior Director Program Development at New York Public Radio (WNYC) involved in strategic planning for national and local programming, outreach and audience development efforts, and new media and marketing initiatives. He was intimately involved in the launch of “The Takeaway” in addition to developing community engagement strategies and a new evening drive program for WNYC. Read Maxie’s full bio.

 

National Hispanic Media Coalition

The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) is a non-partisan, non-profit, media advocacy and civil rights organization created to advance American Latino employment and programming equity throughout the entertainment industry and to advocate for telecommunications policies that benefit Latinos and other people of color. Learn more about NHMC.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Jessica Gonzalez, Vice President, Policy and Legal Affairs

Jessica executes NHMC’s national priorities before the federal agencies and in Congress. She leads NHMC's legal and policy work and has developed its legal internship program. In her role as Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs, Jessica has testified before the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and in Congress, and has been interviewed on television and radio. Additionally, she played an instrumental role in drafting the historic Memorandum of Understanding between Comcast Corporation and the Hispanic Leadership Organizations. Read Jessica’s bio.

 

Native Public Media Flagstaff, AZ

Native Public Media is committed to advancing policies and strategies that enable Native people to utilize technologies – whether traditional or new – that offer the best opportunities to develop healthy, engaged and independent Native communities.  Learn more about NPM.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Dr. Traci L Morris, Director of Operations

Dr. Traci L. Morris (Chickasaw Nation) is the Director of Operations for Native Public Media, Inc. Native Public Media is a service and advocacy organization that works to strengthen and expand Native American media capacity.  As a telecommunications and communications policy specialist working on behalf of Native Public Media and in partnership with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, Morris has supported the national discourse through conferences throughout the county and via publication.  The principal and founder of Homahota Consulting, through which Dr. Morris provided organizations policy analysis and research focusing on Internet use, digital inclusion, network neutrality, and development of broadband networks in Indian Country.  Read Traci’s bio.

 

New America Foundation- Open Technology Initiative Washington, DC

The Open Technology Initiative formulates policy and regulatory reforms to support open architectures and open source innovations and facilitates the development and implementation of open technologies and communications networks. OTI promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks through partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups and is committed to maximizing the potentials of innovative open technologies by studying their social and economic impacts – particularly for poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies. OTI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decision-makers and the general public. Read more about OTI.

 

Sascha Meinrath is the Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative and has been described as a "community Internet pioneer" and an "entrepreneurial visionary."  He is a well-known expert on community wireless networks, municipal broadband, and telecommunications policy. In 2009 he was named one of Ars Technica's Tech Policy "People to Watch" and is also the 2009 recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public interest advocacy. Sascha is a co-founder of Measurement Lab, a distributed server platform for researchers around the world to deploy Internet measurement tools, advance network research, and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections. Read more of Sascha's bio. 

 

United Church of Christ, Office of Communications Inc National

The United Church of Christ is a faith community rooted in justice that recognizes the unique power of the media to shape public understanding and thus society. For this reason, UCC's Office of Communication, Inc. (OC, Inc.) works to create just and equitable media structures that give meaningful voice to diverse peoples, cultures and ideas. Learn more about UCC, OC inc.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Cheryl A. Leanza, Consultant

Cheryl A. Leanza is the President of her consulting firm, A Learned Hand, LLC, www.alearnedhand.com. In this capacity she serves as policy advisor to the United Church of Christ’s historic media advocacy arm and as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Media & Telecommunications Task Force. Read Cheryl’s bio.

 

Prometheus Radio Project Philadelphia, PA

The Prometheus Radio Project builds participatory radio as a tool for social justice organizing and a voice for community expression. To that end, we demystify media policy and technology, advocate for a more just media system, and help grassroots organizations build communications infrastructure to strengthen their communities and movements. Learn more about PRP.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Brandy Doyle, Policy Director

As policy director, Brandy advocates for rules that support low power radio and democratic media at the Federal Communications Commission and in Congress. She has been involved in community radio since 2003, when she got her start as a local news reporter for WMNF Community Radio in Tampa, Florida. While in Florida, she also worked as the communications director at a medical research organization for four years, freelanced for the local paper, managed communications for small nonprofits, fought for bicycle transportation infrastructure, and worked on an organic farm.

Brandy is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Cornell University, where her research is focused on the struggle to license community radio in Guatemala. She received her B.A. in anthropology and literature from New College of Florida in 2001.

 

Public Knowledge Washington, DC

Public Knowledge preserves the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge; promotes creativity through balanced copyright; and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.  Learn more about Public Knowledge. 

 

Voting Member Delegate: Michael Weinberg, Staff Attorney

Michael Weinberg joined Public Knowledge as a full-time Staff Attorney after two years as a part-time Law Clerk and Student Intern. Although he is involved in a wide range of issues at Public Knowledge, he focuses primarily on copyright, issues before the FCC, and emerging technologies like 3D printing. He also makes videos every once in a while.

Michael received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School where he was awarded the ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. Prior to GW he worked in New Delhi and Beijing, and received a B.A. with honors in History and Government from Claremont McKenna College. Read Michael's  bio.

 

Reclaim the Media Seattle, WA

Based in Seattle since 2002, Reclaim the Media conducts grassroots organizing for social change through media justice. We are dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media system and expanding the communications rights of ordinary people through grassroots organizing, education, networking and advocacy. We envision an authentic, just democracy characterized by media systems that inform and empower citizens, reflect our diverse cultures, and secure communications rights for everyone. We advocate for a free and diverse press, community access to communications tools and technology, and media policy that serves the public interest. Learn more about Reclaim the Media.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

has helped Reclaim the Media play a catalytic role in the growth of a national movement focused on media justice and democratizing media policy. Jonathan spent six years developing online communications and strategic campaigns for labor unions including CWA, AFSCME and SEIU. He sits on the advisory board for the Consumers Union's Hear Us Now project, and is a past board member of the Washington News Council. He is a four-year veteran of the Independent Media Center (Indymedia) movement, and has been involved with producing community radio since 1986. His articles on media issues have appeared in numerous publications. Jonathan has a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University.  Read Jonathan's bio.

 

US Public Interest Research Groups National

U.S. PIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, U.S. PIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. U.S. PIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects our health, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government. Learn more about U.S. PIRG.

 

Voting Member Delegate: Ed Mierzwinski, Director Consumer Program

Ed Mierzwinski has been a consumer advocate in the Washington, D.C.-based federal lobbying office of the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (U.S. PIRG) since 1989. State PIRGs are non-profit, non-partisan consumer, environmental and good government watchdog groups with over 500,000 members around the United States. Read more about Ed.

 

Individual Voting Members

 

Professor Angela J. Campbell teaches at the Institute for Public Representation where she runs the First Amendment and Media Law section (formerly known as the Citizens Communications Center). Prior to joining the Georgetown Faculty in 1988, she was an attorney with the Communications and Finance Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and in private practice as an associate with the law firm Fisher, Wayland, Cooper & Leader. Read Angela’s bio.

Serves as an individual representative, GU affiliation for identification purposes only

 

Carol Pierson retired as President and CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) in 2010 after 11 years in the position. She represented community radio at the national and regional level with Congress, the FCC, funders, and networks. She has worked very closely with many of NFCB’s 250 members, including a large number of rural and minority stations as well as independent producers and other broadcast organizations, via direct consultations. Carol has been involved with Native American stations through Native Public Media, Latino-controlled stations helping to organize the Latino Public Radio Consortium, and with new NCE (non-commercial educational) stations via her role as convener of the Radio for People Coalition. Before NFCB, Carol worked for 10 years as Program Director and Director of Special Project with San Francisco public radio station KQED; 8 years as Assistant Radio Manager at WGBH in Boston; and 3 years at WYSO community radio station in Yellow Springs Ohio at Antioch College.  She is currently the President of the La Peña Cultural Center Board of Directors and sings soprano with the La Peña Community Chorus in Berkeley, California.

 

Allied Members

 

Allied Member organizations join the Coalition in order to have a forum to regularly share ideas, connect with other organizations, and stay updated on policy and campaign activities.  Click here to review the Allied Member Agreement.  

 

Center for Creative Voices in Media

To safeguard and enrich the vitality and diversity of our nation's democracy and culture, the Center for Creative Voices in Media will educate legislators, regulators, jurists, the press, and the public on the significant social benefits the American people will realize when our nation's media environment nurtures and supports independent, original, diverse, and creative voices. Learn more about Center for Creative Voices in Media.

 

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National-DC based

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. Through advocacy and outreach to targeted constituencies, The Leadership Conference works toward the goal of a more open and just society – an America as good as its ideals. Read more about LCCR.