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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.

  • Nate Honeycutt

    Experimental social psychologist studying higher education, focusing on topics including political bias, free speech, scientific integrity, and ideological diversity.

  • Aaron Terr

    Director of Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)

  • Tyler MacQueen

    Buckeye in Northern Virginia. Director of Multimedia. Runner, cinephile, and wannabe Lincoln scholar. Letterboxd: atmacqueen

  • Angel Eduardo

    New York City-based writer, musician, and artist. Managing Editor of The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff. Senior Writer & Editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Board Chair at Fair for All. More at AngelEduardo.com.

  • Angela Erickson

    I love music, nature, and liberty. I live in Kentucky with my husband and children.

  • John Coleman

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

  • Jordan

    Digital editor at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

  • Tyler Tone

    I write about free speech issues in tech and telecom for FIRE, as well as some other things from time to time. I try to gather a good bit of that here.

  • Chloe Ratner

    Political Science @ Yale

  • Marie McMullan

    Student Press Counsel for FIRE. I write about student press rights and a smorgasbord of other stuff. Opinions are my own. Author of Square Stage, a blog about breaking out of the performance of perfect. Because life's a stage, not a cage.

  • Carolyn Iodice

    Legislative and Policy Director for FIRE

  • John R Ellis

    I'm a board member and former chairman of FIRE, a retired techie with a particular interest in free expression in local institutions -- school boards, community colleges, city and county government, and member-run nonprofits.

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