Joel Kelsey, Policy Adviser
Joel Kelsey works closely with the policy team to create Free Press' legislative agenda, to develop and implement political strategy and to work with the FCC and Capitol Hill on media policy issues. Joel has been quoted in the Associated Press, Reuters, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and has appeared on Fox News and many regional outlets and radio programs. Before joining Free Press, Joel was a policy analyst of federal and international affairs for Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports; he managed the organization’s advocacy efforts on cable, wireless, telephone and Internet policy. Before joining Consumers Union, Joel served as chairperson for the New York Public Interest Research Group and later worked as NYPIRG's New York City outreach director and then as the statewide campaigns coordinator.
