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Presenters
The National Conference for Media Reform has it all: Award-winning artists. Hollywood luminaries. Visionary activists. Veteran journalists. D.C. heavyweights. While they come from different walks of life, all of our presenters share a desire to change the media and build a better democracy.
Conference presenters will be on hand for a film festival, book signings, strategy sessions, networking opportunities, speeches and much more.
Catch a sneak peek of our growing presenter list below — and check back for updates.
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Free Press President and CEO
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Comedian
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Founder of Black Girls Code
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Journalist and Cultural Critic
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Artist
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Former Federal Communications Commissioner
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Professor and Former White House Technology Adviser
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Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice
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Journalist, Hip-Hop Historian and Hard Knock Radio Host
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Grammy Winner and Former Moldy Peaches Frontwoman
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Author and TV/Media Critic for the Tampa Bay Times
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President and CEO of Common Cause
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West Wing Actress and Activist
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President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence
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Author and Professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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Co-Host of Democracy Now! and New York Daily News Columnist
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Executive Producer and Co-Host of Democracy Now!
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Mayor of Denver
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President of NARAL Pro-Choice America
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Writer and Jezebel.com Founder
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Co-Founder of the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences
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Professor and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation
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Musician and Co-Founder of Flobots.org
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Comedian and Citizen Radio Co-Host
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Grammy-Nominated Musician from DeVotchKa
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Comedian
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Actress
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Media Scholar
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Designer, Researcher and Artist
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Author and Nation Correspondent
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Co-Founder of Upworthy
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Media Critic, Author and Founding Director of Women in Media & News
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Executive Director of the Media Literacy Project
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Musician and Co-Founder of Flobots.org
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Executive Director of ColorOfChange
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Transnational Interdisciplinary Artist and Cultural Organizer
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President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center and Publisher of Colorlines.com
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Public Enemy Beatmaker and Grammy-Nominated Producer
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Columnist, Bestselling Author and TV Commentator
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Staff Reporter for the New York Times
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Author and Member of the Little Rock Nine
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Sportswriter and Author
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Senior Program Development Adviser for Internews
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Guitarist, Vocalist and Songwriter for Bad Weather California
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University of Southern California Provost Ph.D. Fellow in American Studies and Ethnicity
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Author and Professor at CUNY College of Staten Island
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Poet and Executive Director of Minor Disturbance
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Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation
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Media Justice Organizer for the Media Literacy Project
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Human Rights Lawyer, Creative Commons Guatemala
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Former Colorado State Senator
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Human Rights Channel Curator for WITNESS
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Radio Station Co-Founder, Engineer and Media Activist
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Director of Partnerships at the Solutions Journalism Network
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Co-Founder and Executive Director of TheUpTake.org
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Chief of Staff at UltraViolet
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Founder and Director of Alternative Radio
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Writer and Professor at Albright College
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Albuquerque Poet Laureate
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CEO of HelpsGood and President of Animax Entertainment
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Writer and Human Rights Advocate
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CEO and Chairman of the Benton Foundation
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Professor and Co-Director of Press Pass TV
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Staff Representative for NABET-CWA
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Human Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder of CivilMedia
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Writer for The Nation
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Founder of ArgusFest
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Co-Founder of the Future of Music Coalition
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International Programs Director at Code for America
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Director of Field Operations for the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
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Director of External Relations for Reel Grrls
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Media Educator and Lecturer in the UMass Amherst Department of Communication
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Communications and Cultural Strategy Director of Young Women United
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Writer and Illustrator at Grist.org
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Executive Director of ProgressNow
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Doctoral Student at Florida State University
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Programs and Research Associate at the Center for Rural Strategies
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International Affairs Director at ONG Derechos Digitales
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Field Analyst at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
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Co-Founder of Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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Executive Director of Philadelphia Community Access Media
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Media Critic and the Founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media
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Author and Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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Author and Professor at McGill University
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Program Director for the Media Literacy Project
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Partner, Fission Strategy
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Organizing and Events Manager for Free Press
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Hip-Hop Musician
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Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts
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Editorial Board Member at New Moon Girls Magazine
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Associate Director of the Center for Media Justice
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DJ
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Policy Director at the Prometheus Radio Project
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Labor Journalist for In These Times
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Principal of Englin Consulting
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Communications Associate at the Future of Music Coalition
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Partner in Steptoe & Johnson's Telecom, Internet and Media Practice
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DJ
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Organizer and Photographer, 23rd Studios
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Boston Phoenix Staff Writer
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Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge
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Professor at Elon University
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Comedian, Cartoonist and the Host of The Matthew Filipowicz Show
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I-News Executive Director and Vice President at Rocky Mountain PBS
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Author and Chair of the Media Reform Coalition
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Dean of the School of Communications at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
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Author and Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media
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Managing Editor of Prison Legal News
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Station Manager of KGNU Community Radio
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Director of the NJ News Commons
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Executive Director of Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
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Writer, Producer, Activist and Comedian
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Senior Policy Counsel for the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office
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Sousaphonist in the Otone Brass Band
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Film Professor and Youth Educator
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Author, Artist and Agitator
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Musician, Animator and Inventor
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Vice President for Policy & Legal Affairs at the National Hispanic Media Coalition
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Organizer and Producer, Common Frequency and G-Town Radio
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Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy
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Author and Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Executive Director of the Media Consortium
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Editor of the Colorado Independent
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Vice President of News at Colorado Public Radio
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Co-Founder of the Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal
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Criminal Justice Doctoral Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Senior Vice President for Policy and Executive Director of the National Urban League Policy Institute
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Vibraphonist and Percussionist from the Greg Harris Vibe Quintet
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Director of Membership and Outreach at PhillyCAM
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Executive Director of the Latino Public Radio Consortium
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Cable and Broadband Administrator for Montgomery County, Md.
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Co-Founder of Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
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President of CTC Technology and Energy
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Communications Coordinator for Iraq Veterans Against the War
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Director of Project Censored
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Vice President for Social Action at Participant Media
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Founder of Colorado Public News
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Author and Media Scholar at Georgetown University
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Member, Free Press Board of Directors
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Broadband Services Manager for Longmont Power and Communications
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Public Broadcaster and Regular Contributor to NPR and PBS
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Senior Director of Strategy for Free Press
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Journalist and Photographer
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Founder of Killian Communications
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Director of the Internet Freedom and Human Rights Project
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News Editor at Colorlines.com
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Host and Executive Producer of Uprising Radio at KPFK
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Video Artist
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Telecommunications and Broadband Policy Senior Staff Attorney
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Site Leader for Hollaback!
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Reporter for the Denver Post
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Co-Director of Allied Media Projects
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Founder, President and CEO of Raising Change
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Internet Campaign Director for Free Press
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Author and Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity
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Director of the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative
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President of the Newspaper Guild-CWA
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Director of Donor Development and Outreach at Truthout
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Writer and National Media Coordinator at New America Media
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Deputy Editor for Upworthy
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Founder of the European Initiative for Media Pluralism and Founder/Director of European Alternatives
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Technical and Training Coordinator for the Prometheus Radio Project
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Senior Political Reporter for RH Reality Check
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Chief Strategy Officer for KCETLink
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Professor at Quilmes University
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Reel Grrl
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Communications Manager for Forward Together
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Cybersecurity Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
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Activist at Idle No More
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Technical Program Associate for the Open Technology Institute
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Poet
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Executive Director for Access Humboldt
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Vice President of the New America Foundation and Director of the Open Technology Institute
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Leader of Sergio Mendoza y La Orkestra
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Theater Professor, Director and Actor
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Media Rights and Access Organizer at the Media Mobilizing Project
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Technologist at the Open Technology Institute
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Policy Counsel at Access
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Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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Musician, Educator and Activist
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Organizing Director for The Utility Reform Network
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Professor and Co-Founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective
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Director of Library Development and Innovation at the Colorado State Library
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Founder of Homahota Consulting
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Educator and Co-Founder of the Massachusetts Media Literacy Consortium
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Author and Democracy Now! Co-Founder
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Human Rights Activist and Professor in Spain
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Partnership and Training Manager at the Sunlight Foundation
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President of the National Hispanic Media Coalition
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Director of Define American
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Executive Director of Colorado Common Cause
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New America Foundation Media Policy Fellow and University of Toronto Research Fellow
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Novelist and Blogger at In These Times
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Comedian
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Founder, Program Director and Instructor at the Digital News Test Kitchen
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Co-Founder and President of Citizens for a Better Arizona
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President of the Partnership of African American Churches
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Journalist
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Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
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Advocacy and Organizing Director for Free Press
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DJ
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Counsel for Wright Petition and Drinker Biddle and Reath
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Journalist
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Policy Director for Centre for Internet and Society
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Poet
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Director of Generation Justice
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Government Affairs and Outreach Associate at Public Knowledge
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Comedian
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Executive Director of Quote ... Unquote
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Co-President of SAG-AFTRA
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Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation
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Activism Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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National Organizer at the Center for Media Justice
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Project Director for the Freedom Rings Partnership
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Managing Director of Vocalo.org
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Radio/New Media Doer at Brown Paper Tickets
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Online Communications Coordinator for the St. Paul Neighborhood Network
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Editor of Global Voices Advocacy
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Executive Director/CEO of Falmouth Community Television
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Denver Theater Collective
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Executive Director of the Media Alliance
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Founder and Executive Director of Rock the Earth
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President and CEO of Colorado Public Television
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Chair of the Prometheus Radio Project
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Executive Director of the Big Bad Lab
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Professor at the University of Denver
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Mexico and Latin America Correspondent for FSRN
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Freelance Journalist
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Director of the Partnership for Tribal Governance at the National Congress of American Indians
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Director at BigMedia.org
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Saxophonist, Composer and Member of Bop Skizzum
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Development Strategist for the Media Mobilizing Project
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New Media Manager in the University of Colorado Boulder Journalism Department
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Data Manager for Free Press
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Media and Telecommunications Policy Expert
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Senior Adviser at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
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Policy Counsel at the National Hispanic Media Coalition
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Communications Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College
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Blogger and Spark a Movement Activist
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Director of the National Black Programming Consortium’s Public Media Corps
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Executive Director of the Open Media Foundation
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Media Production Coordinator for the Vermont Workers' Center
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Emmy-Nominated Journalist and Host at HuffPost Live
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CEO of United Republic
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Director of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
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Feminist Blogger and SPARK a Movement Activist
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War Made Easy Author, Journalist and Founding Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy
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Racial Justice and Civil Rights Organizer for the Colorado Progressive Coalition
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Performing Artist, Poet, Musician, Educator and Community Advocate
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Community Development Director for KGNU Community Radio
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Campaign and Communications Strategist for the Center for Democracy and Technology
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Program Associate at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence at StartX
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Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director for Free Press
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Researcher at MIT Center for Civic Media
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Founder and President of the Banyan Project
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Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Media and the ACM Foundation
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Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets
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Documentary Filmmaker, Writer and Political Organizer
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President and CEO of Native Public Media, Inc.
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Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation
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Author and Free Press Senior External Affairs Director
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Author and Journalist
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Filmmaker
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Research Director for Free Press
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Attorney and Advocate, Community Justice Project and University of St. Thomas School of Law
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Organizer with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network
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Musician and Co-Executive Director of CASH Music
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Executive Editor of Yes! Magazine
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Researcher for the Center for Technology and Society
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Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Tiziano Project
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Comedian
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Emmy-Winning Journalist, Commentator and Editor
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Multimedia Editor for Viva Colorado
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Director of Development and Communications for the Prometheus Radio Project
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Education Team at the Highlander Research and Education Center
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Founder and CEO of Placeblogger.com
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Government and External Affairs Manager for Free Press
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Journalist, Editor and Newsdesk.org Founder
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Media Activist, Organizer and Storyteller
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Co-Founder of Fight for the Future
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Senior Writer for Moyers & Company
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Sociocultural Anthropologist and Media Mobilizing Project Co-Founder
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Policy Director for Free Press
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Director of Global Public Policy for Netflix, Inc.
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Membership Organizer at the Center for Media Justice
