Council of Advisors
Rebecca Arbogast
Former Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy, Comcast
Kristina Arriaga
Former Vice-Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
John Avlon
Journalist
Antoinette Bush
Former Executive Vice President and Global Head of Government Affairs, News Corp
Joie Chen
Senior Contributor, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien,” Hearst Media Production Group
Ann Compton
Former White House Correspondent, ABC News
Maha Elgenaidi
Executive Director, Intercultural Networks Group
Dr. Robert M. Franklin
James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership, Emory University
President Emeritus, Morehouse College
C. Del Galloway
Former President, Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications
Jeremy Gilbert
Professor, Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill | Northwestern University
David Grant
Director of Partnerships, Blue Engine Collaborative
Maria Hinojosa
Founder, Futuro Media Group
Stan E. Hubbard II
CEO, REELZ
Jacob Mchangama
Founder and Executive Director, The Future of Free Speech
Research Professor, Vanderbilt University
DeRay Mckesson
Founder and Executive Director, Campaign Zero
Civil rights activist
Ed Park
Senior Director, Salesforce
Erika Pulley-Hayes
General Manager, WAMU
Brian Reed
Host and Executive Producer, "Question Everything" | Placement Theory and KCRW
Michael Regan
Founder and CEO, Pacific Compass Ventures
Catherine Robb
Counsel, Haynes and Boone, LLP
Sarah Ruger Cross
Vice President, Free Speech and Peace, Stand Together and Charles Koch Institute
Snigdha Sur
Founder and CEO, The Juggernaut
Susan Swain
Former Co-CEO, C-SPAN
Mandisa Thomas
Founder, Black Nonbelievers
Mark Trahant
Writer and Producer, ICT
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Writer, The Atlantic and author
Esther Wojcicki
Founder of Media Arts Program, Palo Alto High School, Journalist and Educator
Senior Advisors
Shelby Coffey III
Former editor, Los Angeles Times
R. David Edelman
IPRI Distinguished Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology