Board

Craig has led Free Press and Free Press Action since 2011. For more than 15 years, he has been a leader in major campaigns at Free Press to safeguard Net Neutrality, stop media consolidation, oppose unchecked surveillance, defend public media and sustain quality journalism.

Victor is the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center. He has written or edited six books, including America's Battle for Media Democracy and Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Ashley is the founder and president of the Turner Conoly Group, a Black woman-led and -owned social-impact, strategy and political-consulting firm. A political commentator for CNN, she was the national coalitions director for the Biden-Harris 2020 presidential campaign. She previously served as the executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and was the deputy director and senior policy adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement during the Obama administration.

Vanessa is an experienced leader, organizer, political strategist and policy expert on immigration, political disinformation, climate change, women’s political empowerment and Latino voters. Prior to becoming executive director of America’s Voice, Vanessa led a social-impact firm that specialized in government relations, advocacy and communications. She has also worked with some of the most innovative progressive organizations, including the Biden for President campaign, EMILY’s List, the Center for American Progress, LULAC, the World Wildlife Fund and others.

Brandi Collins-Dexter is associate director of research at the Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC) at Harvard. As former senior campaign director of media, culture and economic justice at Color Of Change, Brandi led a number of successful campaigns for corporate and government accountability. She has testified in front of Congress on issues related to surveillance, antitrust and media manipulation. Her book Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future uses a pop-culture lens to understand the history and trajectory of Black political, economic and social power.

Holly earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies. She is on the faculty of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University, where she has served as a research fellow since 2009. She is a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation and has chaired the board of the Ilex Foundation since 1999.

Joan is the research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests are focused on media manipulation, effects of disinformation campaigns and adversarial media movements. Joan previously served as the research lead for Data & Society’s Media Manipulation Initiative.

Martha is on the faculty of the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst, where she also directs the Engaged Research and Learning programs. Her research focuses on digital inequalities, media justice, internet governance, advocacy networks and media-policy literacy.

Ben is the executive director at Reset, an initiative run by Luminate in partnership with The Sandler Foundation focused on tackling digital threats to democracy. He previously served as the director of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, a Berlin think tank, and as a senior advisor to New America's Open Technology Institute. He also led the technology-policy advisory group for the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign. Prior to that he served as the policy adviser for innovation at the State Department and as the policy director at Free Press.

Michael is a former commissioner and acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, where he served from 2001–2011. Michael continues to be active in the fight for media democracy, ubiquitous broadband and an open internet as a special adviser to Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative.

A co-founder of Free Press, Robert is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written or edited 27 books.

A co-founder of Free Press, John is the Nation's Washington correspondent and editorial-page editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of 11 books.

Josh is the co-founder and former president and CEO of Free Press. He is the founder and executive chairman of Represent.Us, a national campaign to end the undue influence of money in U.S. politics through passage of comprehensive anti-corruption laws.