Shirley Bloomfield, CEO, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association

Shirley Bloomfield is chief executive officer of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, the premier association representing nearly 900 independent, community-based telecommunications companies that are leading innovation in rural and small-town America. Under Bloomfield’s leadership, in March 2013 NTCA (previously the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association) launched as a unified organization representing both commercial and cooperative telecommunications providers, initiating a new era for rural telecommunications. Bloomfield is a veteran of the telecommunications industry, having served in a

variety of leadership roles since 1985. In addition to her more than 20 years of service to NTCA, Bloomfield also served for a brief time as senior vice president of federal relations for Qwest and vice president of federal relations for Verizon. Bloomfield serves as a board member of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative and GlobanWin, an organization of women leaders in the high-tech industry.

Carolyn Brandon, Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy

Ms. Brandon formed strategic consulting firm Whitworth Analytics LLC in 2011 to provide decision support, and strategic policy counsel to companies in the high tech, broadband and wireless sectors. Ms. Brandon is also a Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy where she focuses on competition and regulatory policy as applied to networked industries and emerging markets.

Prior to forming Whitworth Analytics, Ms. Brandon served as Vice President, Policy for CTIA-The Wireless Association where she worked for five years with CTIA’s more than 200 members to develop strategic, national public policies for the U.S. commercial wireless industry. Brandon focused on policy matters impacting industry structure, competition, innovation and technology development.

Before joining CTIA in 2004, Ms. Brandon was a partner in the Washington, D.C. boutique law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP where for 12 years she represented wireless telecommunications providers in proceedings and transactions before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, U.S. bankruptcy courts and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Voted one of the “Top Ten Women in Wireless” by the publishers of Wireless Week, Ms. Brandon has served on the Advisory Board of the TechPolicy Summit, and was selected to represent the wireless industry on the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee, an official Federal Advisory Committee. Carolyn has served two terms on the Executive Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association and two terms on the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia

Bar Association’s Computer and Telecommunications Committee. Her pro bono activities include representing prospective adoptive parents before the DC Superior Court, Family Division. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Green Hedges School, a pre-K through 8 independent school located in Vienna Virginia. Ms. Brandon also serves as an Advisory Board Member to the Northern Virginia Children’s Science Museum.

Mary L. Brown, Senior Director for Technology and Spectrum Policy, Cisco

Mary L. Brown is Senior Director for Technology and Spectrum Policy in Cisco’s Washington DC Government Affairs office where she covers a wide range of public policy issues. She leads Cisco’s global public policy agenda for wireless technologies and spectrum policy.

During her career, she has worked as a consultant, as in-house regulatory counsel for a major carrier, and for approximately 10 years as a staff lawyer and manager at the Federal Communications Commission. She has been with Cisco for 10 years. In addition to telecommunications issues, she has substantial experience in Internet

law and policy.

Ms. Brown holds a J.D. with honors from the Syracuse College of Law, and a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dean Brenner, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Qualcomm

Dean Brenner is Senior Vice President, Government Affairs for Qualcomm Incorporated. He directs Qualcomm’s global spectrum acquisitions and strategy and is responsible for global technology policy. He represents Qualcomm before the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies of the United States and Canadian governments responsible for spectrum and telecommunications policy and interacts with spectrum

regulators around the world. He also leads Qualcomm’s policy initiatives relating to mobile healthcare.

Mr. Brenner led Qualcomm’s bidding team in recent spectrum auctions in India (the 2.3 GHz band), the United States (the 700 MHz band), and the United Kingdom (the L Band). In addition, he was responsible for obtaining the regulatory approvals for Qualcomm’s sale of 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T in 2011. In 2006, he obtained the regulatory approvals to launch FLO TV, a mobile TV service. He has spoken at conferences on spectrum policy in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Great Britain, and elsewhere around the world. He joined Qualcomm in November 2003.

Mr. Brenner received his A.B. degree, magna cum laude with distinction in public policy studies, from Duke in 1982. He won a prize for the best paper on communications policy, and he was a recipient for four years of a CBS Scholarship. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1985. He

is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the D.C., Third, and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Brenner is a member of the Federal Advisory Board for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, & Timing, which advises the Executive Branch on policy matters impacting the Global Positioning System. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of 4G Americas, the Board for Jewish Life at Duke University, and the Board of Trustees of the Field School. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Robin Shaffert and their two sons, Michael and Steven.

Rick Chessen, Senior Vice President, Law & Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association

Rick Chessen is Senior Vice President, Law & Regulatory Policy, for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). In that role, he manages the NCTA Legal Department and the Association’s relationship with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Chessen joined NCTA in 2009.

Prior to his current position, Chessen spent over 14 years in public service at the FCC. He initially joined the Commission in 1994 as a senior attorney in the Cable Services Bureau and then served in various other positions, including Senior Legal Advisor to former Commissioners Michael Copps and Gloria Tristani, Chair of the

FCC’s Digital Television Task Force, and Associate Bureau Chief for the Media Bureau. He also served as Acting Chief of Staff of the Commission in early 2009 during the Acting Chairmanship of Commissioner Copps.

Chessen also has worked in private enterprise and practiced law at several law firms. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Larry Downes, Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Project on the Evolution of Regulation and Innovation

Larry Downes is a best-selling author on developing business strategies in an age of accelerating technological disruption.

He is the co-author, with Paul F. Nunes, of Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation (Portfolio 2014), now a bestseller. Based on extensive research, the book describes a new kind of disruptive innovation and teaches executives across industries how to adjust their strategies to survive it.

His previous book, The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Business and Life in the Digital Age explored the accident-prone intersection of law and innovation.

Downes is the author of the New York Times and Business Week bestseller, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever published on business and technology.

He writes regularly for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post andCNET, and is frequently quoted in media stories in both mainstream and trade outlets.

He is currently Project Director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy and a Research Fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance.

He has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University School of Law, and the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he was Associate Dean of the School of Information.

Jason Furman, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisors

Jason Furman is the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to this role, he served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. From 2007 to 2008 Furman was a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute. Previously, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council under President Clinton and Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Furman was the

Economic Policy Director for Obama for America.

Furman, who earned his Ph.D. in economics and a M.A. in government from Harvard University and a M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, has also served as Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, a visiting lecturer at Yale and Columbia Universities, and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He has conducted research in a wide range of areas, including fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, and monetary policy. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals and periodicals, Furman is the editor of several books on economic policy, including Path to Prosperity and Who Has the Cure.

John B. Horrigan, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center

John B. Horrigan is a Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center where he focuses on libraries, communities, and technology. He rejoined the Pew Research Center in January 2015, having been with Pew before from 2000 to 2009. In 2009, he joined the leadership team at the Federal Communications Commission and he led development of the broadband adoption and usage portion of the National Broadband Plan. After that, he has served in senior positions at the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies and TechNet.

Horrigan is author of landmark reports on Comcast’s Internet Essentials program. The reports, “The Essentials of Connectivity” and “Deepening Ties” demonstrate the impact of online access for low-income families with children and make recommendations on how to accelerate broadband adoption and usage. He is also author of “Schools and Broadband Speeds” for the LEAD Commission and the Alliance for Excellent Education, which explores gaps in high-speed Internet at schools serving low-income and minority students.

Horrigan has a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.

Jim Kohlenberger, President, JK Strategies

Jim Kohlenberger has been at the forefront of innovation and technology policy issues for more than 20 years. He currently is President of JK Strategies, a public policy consulting practice. Previously in the Obama White House, Kohlenberger served as Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where he helped craft the President’s innovation strategy and worked to harness innovation to advance economic growth and opportunity for all Americans. He also served for 8 years in the Clinton White House as Senior Domestic Policy Advisor where he helped advanced pragmatic technology policies, worked on the

Telecommunication Act of 1996, chaired the inter-agency telecommunications working group, and led White House efforts to advance educational technology, develop and launch the successful E-rate program, close the digital divide, and help connect every classroom to the Internet. He recently served as executive director of jobs4america – a coalition of forward looking companies who successfully created more than 100,000 new broadband enabled jobs over 2 years, and served as executive director of the “Voice on the Net” or VON Coalition – a coalition of high-tech companies focused on advancing technologies that improve communications over the Internet.

Elise Kohn, Senior Advisor & Program Director, North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN)

Elise Kohn is the Senior Advisor & Program Director for the North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN) project. In addition to advising the NCNGN Steering Committee, Elise coordinates interactions with a variety of stakeholders and supports the ten participating municipalities and universities in their efforts to secure ultra-high speed connectivity for their communities.

Before joining NCNGN, Elise helped launch The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, Gig.U. As Program Director for Gig.U, she managed the day-to-day operations of the consortium of over 35 leading research universities as they completed a request for information process that helped demonstrate the economic case for ultra-high speed broadband networks.

Prior to Gig.U, Elise worked as a Policy Advisor in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). There she took part in the FCC’s efforts to modernize the Universal Service Fund high cost and low income support mechanisms. Elise also served as the Adoption Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative, leading the team responsible for developing the National Broadband Plan’s recommendations to overcome barriers to broadband adoption.

Elise also has experience in the non-profit and private sectors. Previously, she was a Vice President in the Global Leveraged Finance Group of Merrill Lynch. In that role, she assisted a number of high profile media and telecommunications clients access the capital markets and assess the risks associated with strategic acquisitions, divestitures, and infrastructure investments.

Blair Levin, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Project, Brookings Institute; Executive Director, Gig.U: The Next Generation Network Innovation Project

Blair Levin serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Project of the Brookings Institute. He also serves as the Executive Director of Gig.U: The Next Generation Network Innovation Project, an initiative of three dozen leading research university communities seeking to accelerate the deployment of next generation networks. From 2009-2010, Mr. Levin oversaw the development of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler cited Mr. Levin’s work,

noting that “no one’s done more to advance broadband expansion and competition through the vision of the National Broadband Plan and Gig.U.” Prior to his work on the National Broadband Plan, Mr. Levin worked as an analyst at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus. Barron’s Magazine noted that in his work, he "has always been on top of developing trends and policy shifts in media and telecommunications … and has proved visionary in getting out in front of many of today's headline making events." From 1993-1997 Levin served as Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. Previously, Mr. Levin had practiced law in North Carolina, where he represented new communications ventures, as well as local governments. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

John S. Leibovitz, Deputy Bureau Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

John Leibovitz plays an instrumental role in spectrum policy and providing strategic direction for the Bureau, and he was the team lead for spectrum issues in the creation of the National Broadband Plan. Prior to the FCC, Mr. Leibovitz worked on the Presidential Transition Team, where he helped to launch the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform working group. Before that, he worked as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant in telecom with an emphasis on the wireless sector. He started his business career with McKinsey & Company in New York. Mr.

Leibovitz has written about technology and communications policy in the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Mark Malaspina, President, CFY

Mark oversees CFY’s nationwide program innovation and implementation, including CFY’s school-based programs to help low-income families adopt and use broadband effectively to support their children’s educational success. Prior to CFY, Mark served as the President of The Grow Network, an education company he co-founded in 2000 and later became part of McGraw-Hill. Under Mark’s leadership, Grow served the educators and parents of more than 20 million students and demonstrated its impact in differentiated instruction and parent engagement through studies by nationally

recognized research organizations, such as the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Center for Children & Technology. Mark has extensive experience in community development in NYC, Atlanta, and New Haven and has served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer. After receiving his J.D. from Yale Law School, Mark clerked for Judge Phyllis Kravitch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has an M.P.A. in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton University and a B.A. from Yale College, where he received the Hadley Prize for outstanding scholarship in the Social Sciences.

John W. Mayo, Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy

John W. Mayo is a Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. His research interests lie in the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust, and, more generally, the application of microeconomics to public policy. He has published over 50 articles in economics, law and public policy journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and monographs, and is the co-author of a

comprehensive text, "Government and Business: The Economics of Antitrust and Regulation."

Professor Mayo has held a number of senior administrative positions at Georgetown including a term as the Dean of the McDonough School of Business from 2002-2004. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at both UC-Berkeley and Stanford University. Additionally, he has been the Chief Economist, U.S. Senate Small Business Committee (Democratic Staff) and has served as an advisor and consultant to both public and private agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Verizon, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Professor Mayo has participated in a number of regulatory and antitrust proceedings and has testified before both federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies on a number of matters, including monopolization, price fixing, mergers, and regulatory pricing policy. Professor Mayo’s research and or interviews have appeared in the popular press, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Professor Mayo also serves as the Executive Director for the Center on Business and Public Policy, which he founded on in 2002. The Center seeks to engage scholars, policymakers and business people in dialog and debate regarding modern issues at the nexus of business and public policy.

Kerry McDermott, MPH, Vice President, Public Policy and Communications, Center for Medical Interoperability

Kerry McDermott is Vice President of Public Policy and Communications for the Center for Medical Interoperability. The Center is accelerating the seamless exchange of information by solving the shared technical challenges facing health systems today. A 501(c)(3) member organization led by hospitals and health systems, the Center is committed to leveraging the market presence and expertise of its members to demand plug-and-play interoperability of medical technologies and improve the safety, quality and affordability of health care.

Prior to joining the Center, Ms. McDermott was Senior Director, Healthcare Technology Policy for West Health. Priority areas included advancing interoperability, catalyzing a connected health ecosystem to improve individual and population health, transforming care processes through use of enabling technologies, and creating a more transparent healthcare marketplace.

Previously, Ms. McDermott was Director of Healthcare for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She led the agency-wide healthcare agenda, which included advancing wireless health technologies and enabling higher quality, lower cost care through expanding broadband connectivity for healthcare providers. She co-authored the healthcare section of the National Broadband Plan, advised the White House Health IT Task Force, and served as the FCC’s liaison on healthcare issues across government agencies and to industry. She has testified before Congress on rural health challenges and participated in World Economic Forum mobile health initiatives.

Ms. McDermott has held strategy and operations positions at CIGNA HealthCare, and roles in consulting, finance, and education. She holds a Master’s in Public Health from Yale University.

Bruce P. Mehlman, Co-Chairman, Internet Innovation Alliance

Bruce Mehlman is a leader in Washington DC, helping Fortune 500 companies and innovative start-ups understand, anticipate and navigate the public policy environment and trends likely to impact the global marketplace.

Currently Co-Chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance, Mehlman previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. At Commerce Mehlman worked closely with leaders from industry, federal labs, universities and governments on issues impacting technology creators and users including innovation

policy, broadband, biotechnology, tech-led economic growth, technology transfer, nanotechnology and workforce policy.

Mehlman worked as telecommunications policy counsel for Cisco Systems, policy director and general counsel to the House Republican Conference under Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK), general counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and as a commercial litigation attorney in a major Washington law firm.

Bret Perkins, Vice President, External and Government Affairs, Comcast Corporation

Bret Perkins is Vice President of External and Government Affairs for Comcast Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s strategic partnerships with national policy advocacy organizations as well as implementing the company’s regulatory and legislative initiatives with local governments, managing relationships with state and local intergovernmental associations, and grassroots communications. Prior to joining Comcast, he served as Vice President of System Services and Assistant to the President at Mercy Health System in Pennsylvania. In 2008, Bret received the

National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Vanguard Award for Young Leadership, one of the cable industry’s highest honors for its next generation of leaders. Bret is a member of the Temple University Board of Trustees. He has served as President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications and currently serves on the Boards of The Committee of Seventy, the Philadelphia political watchdog nonprofit organization, the Family Online Safety Institute, Older Adult Technology Services (OATS), and the Philadelphia International Airport Advisory Board.

Tom Power, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CTIA – The Wireless Association

Mr. Power served as the U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications in the White House Office of Science and Technology Office from August 2011 until December 2014. Previously, Mr. Power served as Chief of Staff for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce from April 2009 through August 2011. From 2000 to 2009 Mr. Power was General Counsel for Fiberlink Communications in Blue Bell, Pa. From 1994 until 2000, Mr. Power served at the

Federal Communications Commission in several supervisory roles until named Senior Legal Adviser to FCC Chairman William Kennard, where he advised the chairman on broadband, common carrier and mass media matters. Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Power was a telecommunications and litigation partner at Winston & Strawn. He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

Michael Scurato, Policy Director, National Hispanic Media Coalition

Mr. Scurato is the policy director for the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC). He joined NHMC's Washington, D.C. policy team in 2010 when he was hired as a Law Fellow after earning acceptance to Georgetown Law’s Post-JD Public Service Fellowship Program. During his time at NHMC he has worked on a host of media and telecommunications issues including media ownership, broadband access and adoption, preserving an open Internet, spectrum policy, hate speech and negative stereotypes, and media and telecommunications

industry competition.

While in law school, Mr. Scurato represented the public interest in media and telecommunications law issues at the Institute for Public Representation (IPR), one of Georgetown’s renowned legal clinics, first as a summer research assistant and later as a student in the clinical program. At IPR, he represented clients on issues including media ownership diversity, privacy and the need to protect children from harmful TV and online advertising.

Mr. Scurato earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. in political science from New York University. He is currently licensed in the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York.

Eric Small, Vice President, Project LightGig, AT&T

In Eric’s current role as the vice president of AT&T’s Project LightGig, he is responsible for AT&T’s fiber-to-the-premises deployments. Prior to this, Eric was vice president of AT&T Corporate Strategy and held various other roles including president of BellSouth.net. Eric started his career with Texas Instruments as an integrated circuit design engineer and spent more than a decade as a consultant, the last four years in

London. He received his BS in electrical engineering with honors from Notre Dame and an MBA from Wharton.

Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Lawrence E. Strickling was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department of Commerce in June 2009. In this role, Strickling serves as Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Executive Branch agency that is principally responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy. A technology policy expert with more than two decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Strickling’s focus at NTIA includes leading initiatives to expand broadband Internet access and adoption in America and to ensure that

the Internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth.

After joining NTIA, Strickling oversaw the development of an approximately $4 billion Recovery Act broadband grants program and now manages the rigorous oversight of these nationwide broadband projects to ensure they deliver timely and lasting benefits to the American public. Additionally, under Strickling's leadership, NTIA launched America's first public, searchable nationwide map of consumer broadband Internet availability and crafted a ten-year plan that the agency is now implementing to nearly double the amount of commercial spectrum available for wireless broadband, as directed by President Obama. Strickling also oversees NTIA’s efforts on a host of domestic and global Internet policy and administrative issues, including playing a key role in the Commerce Department's Internet Policy Task Force; advocating the U.S. Government’s policy positions abroad; and promoting the stability and security of the Internet’s domain name system through its participation on behalf of the U.S. government in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) activities.

Previously in government, Strickling served at the Federal Communications Commission as Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau from 1998 to 2000, working to promote competition and protect consumers in the telecommunications sector and implement many of the key provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Prior to that, Strickling was Associate General Counsel and Chief of the FCC’s Competition Division.

In the private sector, Strickling was Chief Regulatory and Chief Compliance Officer at telecommunications service provider Broadwing Communications, LLC, from 2004 to 2007. His private sector experience from 2000 to 2004 included serving in senior roles at competitive communications service providers Allegiance Telecom, Inc. and CoreExpress, Inc. and as a member of the Board of Directors of Network Plus. From 1993 to 1997, Strickling was Vice President, Public Policy at Regional Bell Operating Company Ameritech Corp., where he was responsible for developing and implementing

Ameritech’s state and federal regulatory and legislative agenda. Strickling was also a litigation partner at the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

Strickling earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in economics.

Nicol Turner-Lee, Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council

Nicol Turner-Lee is Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer for the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC), a 28-year old minority media advocacy organization, where she is responsible for designing and implementing its research and policy agenda. In her prior tenure at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Dr. Turner-Lee created the first “National Minority Broadband Adoption Study” which was cited in the Federal Communications Commission’s congressionally mandated National Broadband

Plan as well as a subsequent report detailing the information needs of communities. In 2011, Dr. Turner-Lee was appointed to the Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Digital Age by former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. She has received numerous awards and is the author of several publications with one forthcoming on online privacy concerns of vulnerable populations. She received her B.A. from Colgate University and her doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern University.