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  • FIRE

    Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression A nonpartisan non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech in the United States.

  • Sarah McLaughlin

    Sarah is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech

  • David Josef Volodzko

    Head of news at FIRE, editor-in-chief of Expression, author of The Radicalist, analyst at Washington Policy Center. Former Asia correspondent, war correspondent, financial editor, and professor of logic. Fired from Seattle Times for attacking Lenin.

  • Chapin Lenthall-Cleary

    Co-founder and co-editor of the Penn Heretic. All views expressed are my own.

  • Jacob Gaba

    Staff Attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) – Opinions my own

  • Jacob Mchangama

    CEO of The Future of Free Speech, research professor at Vanderbilt University. Senior Fellow at FIRE. Author of "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media", host of the podcast "Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech".

  • Kevin Ray

    Theater Director, Independent Producer and Teaching Artist, creating new work in collaboration with actors & designers. Kevin’s productions include Unearthly Visitants, The Machine Stops and We.

  • John Coleman

    John is a legislative counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Opinions are my own.

  • Matthew Harwood

    VP of Comms at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)

  • Zach Greenberg

    Director of Faculty Legal Defense at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) https://www.fire.org/about-us/our-team/zach-greenberg

  • Brynn Lintner

    Strategic Campaigns Associate at FIRE

  • Tyler Coward

    Lead Counsel, Government Affairs at FIRE

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