Board

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

Ben is the senior adviser to New America's Open Technology Institute in Washington, D.C., and the director of the European Digital Agenda program at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin. He previously served as the policy adviser for innovation at the State Department and as the policy director at Free Press.

Alvaro is the founding executive director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology. He is an expert on digital-privacy issues, including face recognition, commercial data collection and government surveillance, with a focus on their impact on communities of color.

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.

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 has chaired the board of the Ilex Foundation since 1999.

Victor is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Before that he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C., as a senior research fellow at Free Press and New America, and as a media policy fellow for Rep. Diane Watson.

Liza is the founder and director of New Media Mentors, a hands-on learning program that trains nonprofits to design and run winnable campaigns, expand their reach and influence and transform their leaders so they can have maximum impact and achieve lasting social change.

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 director of Represent.Us, a national campaign to end the undue influence of money in U.S. politics through passage of comprehensive anti-corruption laws.