Hannah Sassaman

For six years, Hannah Sassaman has led campaigns against Clear Channel, the National Association of Broadcasters, and for responsible limits on media consolidation in the United States. A key organizer of major FCC localism hearings in San Antonio, Rapid City, and Nashville, Hannah traveled last year across Kenya, building three radio stations with independent African journalists, community organizations and educational groups. In 2005, she helped coordinate the successful building of an FCC-licensed emergency radio station used by families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She has been featured in segments on NPR's On the Media, Democracy Now!, CNN, C-SPAN, and a variety of other TV, radio and print sources. Hannah is currently captaining an aggressive pair of federal bills that would expand Low Power FM radio station availability and community radio to most cities and towns in the United States. She has built coalitions with diverse national and local Christian groups, civil rights groups, emergency responders, and many other groups, including local social justice pioneers like the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Her work and the work of Low Power FM radio was featured on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. Hannah is banned from all official National Association of Broadcasters events.