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, Islamic 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
President, Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications

Jeremy Gilbert
Professor, Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill | Northwestern University

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
Civil rights activist

Ed Park
Senior Director, Salesforce

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

Mandisa Thomas
Founder, Black Nonbelievers

Mark Trahant
Writer and Producer, ICT

Thomas Chatterton Williams
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