About FIREFoundation for Individual Rights in EducationFIRE_0f18dfea-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b7FIRE effectively and decisively defends American liberties on behalf of thousands of students and faculty on our nation’s campuses. In case after case, FIRE brings about favorable resolutions for these individuals who continue to be challenged by those willing to deny fundamental rights and liberties within our institutions of higher education. In addition to individual case work, FIRE works nationally to inform the public about the fate of liberty on our campuses...
FIRE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.American CollegesAmerica's colleges and universities are, in theory, indispensable institutions in the development of critical minds and the furthering of individual rights, honest inquiry, and the core values of liberty, legal equality, and dignity. Instead, they often are the enemies of those qualities and pursuits, denying students and faculty their voices, their fundamental rights, and even their individual humanity. The university setting is where students are most subject to the assignment of group identity, to indoctrination of radical political orthodoxies, to legal inequality, to intrusion into private conscience, and to assaults upon the moral reality of individual rights and responsibilities. Illiberal university policies and practices must be exposed to public criticism and scrutiny so that the public is made aware of the violations of basic rights that occur every day on college campuses.American UniversitiesAlan Charles KorsIn 1998, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate co-authored The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses. In response, they received hundreds of communications and pleas for help from victims of illiberal policies and double standards that violated their rights and intruded upon their private consciences. To answer these calls for help and to transform the culture, Alan and Harvey founded FIRE.Harvey A. SilverglateFIRE StaffGreg LukianoffPresident --
Greg is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate and Freedom From Speech and has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, Forbes, the New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reason, CNET, The Daily Caller, Congressional Quarterly, The Charleston Law Review, and numerous other publications. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Ricochet.com. He also authored a chapter in Templeton Press’s anthology New Threats to Freedom, edited by Adam Bellow. Greg is a frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs, has represented FIRE on national television shows, including CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, CNN’s New Day, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Fox’s Special Report and The O’Reilly Factor, Fox Business’s Stossel and The Independents, and MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy, and has testified before the U.S. Senate about free speech issues on America’s campuses. In 2008 he became the first ever recipient of the Playboy Foundation Freedom of Expression Award and in 2010 he received Ford Hall Forum’s Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award on behalf of FIRE.
Greg is a graduate of American University and of Stanford Law School, where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law. Before joining FIRE, Greg practiced law in Northern California, interned at the ACLU of Northern California and the Organization for Aid to Refugees in Prague, Czech Republic, and was the development manager of the EnvironMentors Project in Washington, D.C. Greg, along with Harvey A. Silverglate and David French, is a co-author of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Greg is also a proud member of the board of directors of Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile.Robert ShibleySenior Vice President --
Robert L. Shibley, FIRE's Senior Vice President, is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law. Robert's undergraduate experience serving as the managing editor of the Duke Review newspaper, which frequently decried (and faced) administrative censorship and bias, led him to a career defending the rights of college and university students and faculty members. Since starting at FIRE in 2003, Robert has aided students and faculty members at dozens of colleges and universities. He is also a member of the bar in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. As Senior Vice President, along with traveling to various campuses to speak about First Amendment issues, Robert has represented FIRE publicly on Stossel, Fox and Friends, and Lou Dobbs Tonight, in national and international radio and TV interviews, and in published editorials in the New York Post, Boston Globe, National Review, Providence Journal, Daily Oklahoman, and other newspapers. He also writes columns for The Daily Caller, Forbes.com, and Pajamas Media. Robert and his wife Araz live in Apex, North Carolina, with their two daughters, Grace and Cecily.Peter BonillaDirector, Individual Rights Defense Program --
Peter Bonilla has been with FIRE since 2008 and worked with FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program since 2009, becoming director in 2013. As Director he manages FIRE's caseload, writes frequently for FIRE's blog,The Torch, and has lectured to student groups and at student conferences around the country. Since January 2011, Peter has also been a contributor for the political commentary website PolicyMic, covering issues in American higher education. Prior to joining FIRE, Peter was Literary Manager of Philadelphia’s InterAct Theatre Company, one of the country’s top theatres for the development and production of new politically and socially-themed plays. He is also a past recipient of a fellowship in playwriting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and his first play was produced to critical acclaim in Arizona in September 2011. In 2009, Peter was a contestant on the television game show Jeopardy! His undergraduate degree, with a double major in theater arts and economics, is from the University of Pennsylvania.William CreeleyVice President of Legal and Public Advocacy --
William began defending student and faculty rights for FIRE in 2006 after graduating from New York University School of Law, where he served as an associate executive editor for the New York University Law Review. William has spoken to students, faculty, administrators, and attorneys at events across the country and has led FIRE’s Continuing Legal Education programs in New York, Pennsylvania, and online. William co-edited the second edition of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus and has coauthored amicus curiae briefs submitted to a number of courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. William has appeared on national cable television and radio on behalf of FIRE, and William’s writing has been published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jurist, Inside Higher Ed,Daily Journal, the Charleston Law Review, the Providence Journal, and other outlets. William is a member in good standing of the New York State Bar and the First Amendment Lawyers Association.
A proud native of Buffalo, N.Y., William now lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son.Sean ClarkVice President of Finance and Information Technology --
Sean Clark graduated from Penn State University in 2003 where he earned a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in History. As an undergraduate, he presided over Undergraduate Student Government Senate as its president, chaired the Student Organization Appeals Board, and served as vice-chairman and later as chairman of Penn State Young Americans for Freedom. In 2001, Sean became involved with FIRE when the foundation intervened on the behalf of YAF in a religious liberty dispute with the university. Sean first started with FIRE in 2005 as a Program Associate, later serving as a Program Officer and Assistant to the President and now manages the day-to-day operations of the FIRE office.Alisha GlennonVice President of Development --
Alisha is a Philadelphia native who graduated from the College of William & Mary with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Business Marketing. Alisha leads FIRE's development activities including donor relations, foundation grants, and fundraising events. Alisha is a member of the Junior League of Philadelphia and the Association of Fundraising Professionals Philadelphia Chapter. She currently volunteers as a birth doula and lives in the Chestnut Hill section of the city with her husband, two children, and two Boston terriers.Samantha HarrisDirector of Policy Research --
Samantha Harris graduated from Princeton University with a degree in politics in 1999 and went on to earn her J.D. in 2002 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Constitutional Law. Samantha joined FIRE in 2005 after serving as a law clerk for the late Honorable Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and working as a litigation associate at the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
As Director of Policy Research, Samantha conducts extensive research on policies affecting speech at hundreds of colleges and universities and is the author of FIRE's annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report. She has also spoken to students, faculty, and administrators around the country, and has represented FIRE publicly on national television and radio as well as in publications including Inside Higher Ed and the New York Post. When not defending free speech on campus, Samantha enjoys cooking, a cappella singing, and playing the flute and piano.Ashley AdamsDevelopment Associate --
Ashley is a proud Philadelphia native who graduated cum laude from Drexel University with a B.S. in communications, concentrating in corporate and public relations. Ashley first came to FIRE in 2011 through Drexel University's cooperative education program and worked as a Program Assistant. Before coming to FIRE, she interned at Greater Media Philadelphia in the sales and marketing department of WMGK radio. In addition to her work in development, Ashley also supervises students in the cooperative education program as well as helps manage the day-to-day operations of the FIRE office. Ashley is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Philadelphia Chapter.Akil AlleyneResearch and Program Associate --
Born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Montreal, Akil is a 2008 graduate of Princeton University and a 2013 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. His major areas of study were constitutional and international law with a particular focus on federalism, foreign policy, separation of powers, and civil liberties. An award-winning public speaker and debater since high school, and a member of Cardozo Law School’s Moot Court Honor Society, Akil has a natural passion for free speech. He contributed to on-campus public discourse as a discussion group leader at Princeton’s chapter of Sustained Dialogue, as a member of its International Relations Council, and as president of Cardozo’s chapter of the Federalist Society. Akil's writing has been published by PolicyMic and Montreal's political commentary journal The Métropolitain. In his spare time, Akil enjoys spending time with old friends and making new ones; reading works of history and historical fiction; discussing politics and philosophy; and watching crime dramas, reality TV, and the work of the great chef Gordon Ramsay.Katie BarrowsCommunications Coordinator --
Katie is a Pacific Northwest native who graduated cum laude from the University of Washington with a B.A. in political science and a minor in history. As an undergraduate, Katie was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and was involved in College Democrats. After earning her bachelor’s degree, Katie worked on the 2012 Washington state governor’s race as a field staffer for the Democratic candidate’s winning campaign. Katie's passion for politics, government, and the law led her to Washington, D.C. She has served as an intern on the Hill and as an outreach and research assistant for LegiStorm, a congressional research and data company. In her spare time, Katie enjoys listening to alternative rock music and watching Portland Trail Blazers basketball.Joseph CohnLegislative and Policy Director --
Joseph Cohn, FIRE's Legislative and Policy Director, is a 2004 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Fels Institute of Government Administration, where he earned his Juris Doctor and Masters in Government Administration. Prior to law school, Joe attended the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), where he graduated cum laude and co-founded the university’s ACLU chapter. A former staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and law clerk in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Joe joins FIRE having demonstrated a career-long dedication to advancing the cause of civil liberties. He has served as a staff attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, where his work earned him accolades from The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly ("2007 Lawyer on the Fast Track") in 2007 and from Super Lawyers magazine ("Rising Star") in 2008. In 2010, Joe taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as an adjunct professor, where he lectured on good trial practices and supervised law students as they represented real clients in both state and federal courts. Just prior to joining FIRE, Joe served as the interim legal director for ACLU affiliates in Nevada and Utah.Ari CohnProgram Officer, Legal and Public Advocacy --
A native of Skokie, Illinois, Ari Cohn earned his J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School, and his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied political science and sociology. Growing up in Skokie, he studied the famous 'National Socialist Party of America' case at an early age, which cultivated a profound respect for the First Amendment, and a lifelong passion for free speech issues. He brings a diverse perspective on student disciplinary issues as well; as an undergraduate, he served on the University of Illinois’ student conduct hearing committee, and later returned to work as a legal intern in its Office of University Counsel. Ari is a member of the Illinois State Bar, and previously served as a legal fellow for FIRE in 2011, after which he joined the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP, where he represented large multinational corporations in high-stakes commercial litigation. When not working to advance the cause of civil liberties, Ari enjoys playing the guitar and the violin, attending concerts, following his beloved Chicago and University of Illinois sports teams, and being dragged all around town by his spirited Siberian Husky.Peyton CudabackDirector of Human Resources --
Peyton graduated from Drexel University in 2011 with a B.A. in communications, concentrating in global journalism. Through Drexel's cooperative education program, Peyton began working for FIRE in the spring of 2008 as a Program Assistant. After being on FIRE’s staff for three years while finishing her undergraduate degree, she took on a full-time position as Assistant to the Vice President after her graduation. As part of her work at FIRE, Peyton will also supervise students from the same program that brought her to FIRE. Throughout her time at Drexel, Peyton was a member of the women’s crew team. Outside of her involvement at FIRE, Peyton is a proud New Yorker and is passionate about the music and culture of the 1960s.David DeersonProgram Associate, Campus Outreach --
David is a 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) with a B.A. in philosophy and history and a minor in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE). While in school, he served as president of the UNC Young Americans for Liberty, with whom he won YAL's national free speech activism award. His undergraduate activism also earned him a spot in FIRE’s Prometheus Society. David joins FIRE after gaining experience working professionally in college outreach and activism coordination at Students For Liberty.Bridget GlackinAssistant Director of Development --
Bridget Glackin graduated cum laude from Fordham University with a B.A. in History and Political Science in 2007. After earning her undergraduate degree, Bridget worked as a press officer at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in New York City, focusing on issues such as culture, immigration, and higher education. In 2009, she returned to Fordham University to pursue an M.A. in Modern European History, completing her Master’s thesis on the intersection of socialist and feminist ideologies in late 19th century Britain. This passion for the study of competing ideologies and her belief in the value of open scholarship drives her commitment to the preservation of liberty on America’s college campuses.Susan KruthProgram Officer, Individual Rights Defense Program --
Susan Kruth earned her B.A. from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2007, with a concentration in music and film. After a handful of short film and documentary gigs, Susan wanted to study the ways that the Constitution protects filmmakers, so she decided to go to law school. While attending the University of Virginia School of Law, she served as musical director of the law school's a cappella group, the A Cappellate Opinions, and performed in UVA Law’s spring musical comedy program, the Libel Show. Susan earned her J.D. in 2011 and is now a member of the Virginia State Bar. She got her start working to protect free speech through a fellowship with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has also completed civil rights internships with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT & AIDS Project. Susan is happy to have finally landed at FIRE, where she can continue to focus on defending freedom of expression and the right to due process.Gina LuttrellProgram Associate, Public Awareness Project --
Gina graduated cum laude from Georgia’s Agnes Scott College in 2011, receiving a B.A. in philosophy and political science. While in college, she co-founded and lead the Agnes Scott College Libertarians, which held a number of free speech events on campus during her tenure. After graduating, Gina completed the Koch Summer Fellow Program through the Institute for Humane studies at the Sam Adams Alliance, where she completed projects in web and graphic design. In 2012, her passion for discourse and discussion led her to FIRE.Azhar MajeedDirector, Individual Rights Education Program --
Azhar Majeed, a native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, received a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Michigan in 2004. He is also a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. As an undergraduate, his academic interests included comparative constitutional law and political philosophy, particularly from the time period of the Enlightenment. During law school, Azhar represented the University of Michigan at the 2006 Tulane International Moot Court competition. Azhar was one of FIRE's inaugural Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellows and was also a FIRE legal intern in 2005.Sarah McLaughlinProgram Associate, Individual Rights Defense Program --
Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Drexel University in 2014 with a B.S. in political science and a minor in history. In 2012, Sarah began working with FIRE through Drexel's cooperative education program as a Program Assistant. She stayed on FIRE’s staff for another year through the rest of her undergraduate career. After graduation, Sarah took on the position of Program Associate for FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program. In addition to her passion for free speech, Sarah is an avid J.R.R. Tolkien fan.Molly NocheckProgram Officer, Campus Outreach --
Molly Nocheck, a Cincinnati native, graduated from Ohio University in 2013 with a B.S. in journalism. During her time as an undergraduate, Molly served as the director of Students Defending Students, an organization dedicated to advising students through OU’s judicial processes. She also served as a reporter and producer for WOUB News. Molly is excited to be working for FIRE and hopes to ameliorate codes of conduct nationwide. Her passion for due process and free speech is only matched by her love of Skyline Chili.Nate O'ConnorExecutive Assistant to the President --
Nate O'Connor is a native Hoosier from Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana University in 2013, and double majored in Italian and political science. While at IU, Nate was highly active in the university's Young Americans for Liberty chapter, which has worked with FIRE for several years to dismantle the university's oppressive speech codes. After finishing his senior year while studying abroad at the University of Bologna in Italy, Nate interned at YAL's national office in Washington D.C. He then moved on to serve as a legislative intern at the Indiana State House for the spring 2014 legislative session before coming to FIRE. In his free time Nate enjoys traveling, listening to wide varieties of podcasts, and being an amateur astronomer.Catherine SevcenkoAssociate Director of Litigation --
Catherine Sevcenko, FIRE's Associate Director of Litigation, graduated magna cum laude from George Mason School of Law after a career as a Foreign Service Officer. Postings in Budapest, Munich, and Moscow before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall gave her a deep appreciation for the power of free speech. After law school, Catherine clerked on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before starting work as an associate at Steptoe & Johnson, LLC. After leaving Steptoe, Catherine joined the appellate group at the U.S. Trustees Program at the Department of Justice. Catherine joined FIRE as a Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow; in October 2013, she took over the day-to-day management of what is now FIRE's Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.
Catherine is an adjunct professor of appellate writing at George Mason School of Law. She lives outside of Washington D.C. with her husband and son; her daughter recently graduated from a green light school. She also raises African Pied Crows and recently received her license to rehabilitate wild songbirds.FIRE Board of DirectorsHarvey SilverglateCo-founder and Chairman --
Harvey Silverglate was born in New York (1942) and was educated at Bogota (N.J.) High School (1960), Princeton University (1964), and Harvard Law School (1967).
As Counsel to Boston's Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP, Silverglate specializes in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom/student rights law. He has assisted students in trouble since 1969, when he represented student anti-war protesters on trial. He has taught at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (a public secondary school), the University of Massachusetts College III (in Boston), and Harvard Law School. Silverglate has also served on the Board of the ACLU of Massachusetts for over three decades, including two terms as Board president. He is a long-time affiliate of Harvard College's Dunster House, where he conducts student "law tables."
A long-time regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix, Silverglate has been published in The National Law Journal, Inc. magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Harvard Law Review, The New York Times Book Review, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly,Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Media Studies Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Supreme Court Review, Wilson Quarterly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reason magazine, and elsewhere. Silverglate is also the author of The Shadow University (with Alan Charles Kors, 1998) and Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (2009). He has lectured and debated at the Ford Hall Forum, the oldest independent forum in the nation devoted to free speech.
Silverglate chaired the Independent Privacy Board of Predictive Networks, Inc., from 2000 until 2002. Earlier, he was litigation counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, advocating freedom in cyberspace. He is an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute.
Silverglate lives with his wife, portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman, in Cambridge. They have a son, Isaac.Barbara BishopBarbara W. Bishop is an attorney in New York, specializing in the financial services industry and regulatory and employment law. She has practiced law for 35 years. After a period in the District Attorney’s Office including in the Rackets Bureau and other government jobs, Barbara joined Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., a global investment bank, where she became a Senior Managing Director and spent 23 years. There Ms. Bishop headed the Global Futures and Foreign Exchange practices and developed the Employment practice, handling transactional, contractual, and advisory work on a global basis. She also practiced in Litigation and Arbitration, and in Regulatory areas including Internal Investigations and Anti-Money Laundering. Ms. Bishop was a member of the Internal Audit Committee, the Retail Products Committee, the Global Compliance Committee, and she created and co-chaired the Diversity Committee. Furthermore, Ms. Bishop was the firm’s Acting Global Head of Human Resources, for a 16-month period during which time served on the Firm’s Operations Committee. Ms. Bishop was appointed to the firm's President’s Advisory Council.
Post Bear Stearns, Ms. Bishop was the general counsel of a small broker/dealer specializing in securities with some futures practice. And following that assignment, Ms. Bishop consulted with a global broker/dealer and futures commission merchant owned by two foreign banks, where she audited employment practices and developed a non cash and deferral compensation scheme for world wide implementation. After 16 months, Ms. Bishop consulted a broker/dealer specializing in mortgage backed products, providing general council services. Today, Ms. Bishop continues to consult in employment practices, investigatory matters, compensation arrangements, regulatory matters, and futures and securities matters.
Ms. Bishop is a graduate of New York University School of Law, Stanford University, and the Solebury School in New Hope, Pa. She is married and the mother of two sons, one, a Skidmore graduate, now in law school and the other a recent graduate of Stanford UniversityAnthony DickAnthony Dick is an attorney in Washington, DC, where his practice focuses on constitutional, appellate, and complex litigation in federal court. In addition to his work in the federal courts of appeals, he has contributed to successful briefs before the United States Supreme Court at both the certiorari and merits stages. He has written articles that have appeared in publications such as SCOTUSblog, National Review Online, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times. In December 2012, Forbes Magazine named him to its "30 Under 30: Law & Policy” list of “today’s disrupters and tomorrow’s brightest stars."
Anthony is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Stanford Law School, where he served as an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review. Following law school he clerked for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. He now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife and two sons.Richard LosickRichard Losick is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, and a Harvard College Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. He was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow in 1969, and he joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1972. He is a past chairman of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology. He teaches the introductory course on molecular biology at Harvard College, and is Head Tutor for the undergraduate concentration in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Dr. Losick is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a former Visiting Scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is a member of the Senior Editorial Board for Science magazine and a member of the editorial board for the journals Cell and Genes & Development. He is the 2007 winner of the Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the 2009 winner of the Gairdner International Award for medical research.Joseph MalineJoseph Maline is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a Director of Professional Services at immixGroup, responsible for the management of immixGroup’s internal IT staff and computer systems, and working with the immixGroup Solutions line of business in the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for immixGroup’s clients. As CTO, Mr. Maline oversees all internal IT projects, including technical decisions, project management, and delivery of solutions for the business.
immixGroup is a government business consultancy headquartered in McLean, Virginia, delivering a variety of strategies and services designed to help IT manufacturers Grow and Manage their government business and Government customers more efficiently procure the products and services they require. Working with over 150 IT manufacturers and nearly every government agency, immixGroup has the flexibility to offer its clients the ideal program and growth strategy, whether they sell direct or through the channel, offer emerging or mature technologies, own their own government contracts, or none at all. immixGroup’s clients include Fortune 1000 corporations, federal and state governments, and rapidly growing middle-market companies in the retail, distribution, manufacturing, and service industries.
Mr. Maline graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in the history and sociology of science and from Harvard University with a master’s degree in the history of science. Before joining immixGroup, Mr. Maline served as the CTO of Management Information Consulting, Inc. (MIC), an e-business, systems integration, and information technology consulting firm. He is married with two children and lives in Herndon, Virginia.Marlene MieskeMarlene Mieske is a registered nurse who has spent the past 35 years working with the mentally ill in Boston and New York City. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was involved in implementing the de-institutionalization and community mental health policies of that time. She went on to coordinate the Special Studies Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital. During that time, the clinic conducted the NIMH fluphenazine-decanoate study along with other significant clinical research involving schizophrenia and major depression.
In New York City, Mieske became the first director of psychiatric nursing at Lenox Hill Hospital. In that role, she was instrumental in opening the first psychiatric inpatient unit as well as the first support group for hospital staff taking care of AIDS patients in the early 1980s. After leaving Lenox Hill, she continued her commitment to the mentally ill by working in a day treatment program for people challenged by mental illness and drug addiction.
Presently, Mieske's focus has shifted to supporting the mentally ill in a broader context. As a member of the Board of Trustees of Fountain House -- a club house for the mentally ill in New York City -- she is developing and implementing a special education project to help reduce the stigma of mental illness among health care providers and the general public. Mieske’s other interests include participating on the board of PROMISE, at Columbia Presbyterian hospital which supports undeserved children with attention and learning disabilities, and serving on the board of advisers at the New York Civil Right Coalition.
Mieske is a graduate of Albany Memorial School of Nursing and earned her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in nursing from Boston College, with honors. She is married with two sons and resides in New York City.Daphne PataiDaphne Patai is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author and editor of twelve books, among them The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology (1984), Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories (1988), Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (1991, co-edited with Sherna Berger Gluck), Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 (1993, co-edited with Angela Ingram), and Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism (1998). Her 1994 critique of women’s studies programs, written with Noretta Koertge, was reissued in a new and expanded edition in 2003 as Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies. She also co-edited with Will H. Corral a large volume of essays criticizing contemporary theory fads. Titled Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, it was published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2005.
Long concerned about the attack on free speech on American campuses, Patai has been involved with FIRE since its inception. Years in the academic world (including ten years spent in a women's studies program) have alerted her to the dangers of politicizing education. Her articles on these and other problems in higher education have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Patai's most recent books are collections of her essays: 'What Price Utopia?' Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs was published in 2008 by Rowman & Littlefield,and História Oral, Feminismo e Política was published in 2010 by Letra e Voz in Brazil.Virginia PostrelVirginia Postrel is an author, columnist, and speaker whose work spans a broad range of topics, from social science to fashion, all with an eye toward understanding the personal and social meaning of life in a dynamic, commercial culture.
Writing in Vanity Fair, Sam Tanenhaus (now the editor of The New York Times Book Review) described her as "a master D.J. who sequences the latest riffs from the hard sciences, the social sciences, business, and technology, to name only a few sources."
Postrel is the author most recently of The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, published in November by Simon & Schuster. Her previous books are The Substance of Style (2003) and The Future and Its Enemies (1998). She is a regular columnist for Bloomberg View.
She teaches a seminar on "Glamour: Theory and Practice" in the Branding MPS program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
From July 1989 to January 2000, Postrel was the editor of Reason magazine and vice president of the Reason Foundation.
She has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Forbes and its companion technology magazine Forbes ASAP. Her work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004.Daniel ShuchmanDaniel Shuchman is a fund manager at MSD Capital, L.P., a New York-based investment firm. Prior to that Daniel worked at Goldman Sachs & Co., and at Gotham Partners, a private investment partnership. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied history and philosophy. After graduation, Daniel worked at the Manhattan Institute, a non-profit public policy organization. Daniel has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Reason, Forbes, The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Survival (the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.) He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.FIRE Board of AdvisorsLloyd BuchananLloyd Buchanan is the owner of Gretchen Scott Designs, a women's apparel company. Prior to starting that business, Buchanan worked for 28 years in capital portfolio management, including 14 years as chief operating officer at Axe-Houghton Associates. Additionally, from 2000-2009 Buchanan served as a trustee for the Foundation for Economic Education. Mr. Buchanan holds a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Mr. Buchanan currently resides in New York.T. Kenneth CribbT. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., is president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Cribb was Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in the Reagan Administration, serving as President Reagan's top advisor on domestic matters. Earlier in the administration he held the position of Counselor to the Attorney General. He also served as vice chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1989 to 1992. Today he also is president of the Collegiate Network, an association of independent college newspapers; vice president of the Council for National Policy; and counselor to the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.William DunnBill Dunn's formal education was in theoretical physics. He then spent two years teaching and researching physics and seven years conducting operations research and systems analysis studies for the U.S. government. By 1974, Dunn had educated himself in the technical trading of futures (commodities) portfolios. He then formed DUNN Capital Management and began trading for clients in October of 1974. He moved the company headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Stuart, Fla., in 1980. DUNN currently manages over $1 billion for institutional and individual clients from around the world. DUNN’s composite track record spans a period of over 30 years and has achieved a return of over 20% per annum, net of all fees and expenses. Dunn is actively involved with a number of libertarian organizations around the country, and his wife, Rebecca, also supports many of these as well as other local civic organizations.Benjamin HammondBenjamin Hammond is a clinical professor in periodontal microbiology at the Temple University School of Dentistry. Hammond is professor emeritus of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (1991-present). He served as a professor of medicine and dental medicine (1991-1997) and as the director of the Oral Microbiology Testing Service at the Medical College of Pennsylvania/MCP-Hahnemann University College of Medicine. Hammond is also a former professor (1970-1991) and chairman (1972-1985) of the Department of Microbiology and former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1984-1991) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Other awards and posts include: president of the American Association for Dental Research (1978); Lindback Award for distinguished teaching, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (1969); and member, National Advisory Dental Research Council, National Institutes of Health (1975-1978).Nat HentoffNat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal. Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times, The New Republic, Commonwealth, The Atlantic, andThe New Yorker, where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years. Hentoff’s views on journalistic responsibility and the rights of Americans to write, think, and speak freely are expressed in his weekly column, and he has come to be acknowledged as a foremost authority in the area of First Amendment defense. He is also an expert on the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, student rights, and education. He has published many books on jazz, biographies, and novels, including a number of books for children. Among his works: Does Anybody Give A Damn? Nat Hentoff on Education, Our Children Are Dying, A Doctor Among Addicts, Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste, The New Equality, The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America, The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, John Cardinal O’Connor: At The Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church, and Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other.Roy InnisRoy Innis was born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and grew up in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army. He attended City College majoring in chemistry, and subsequently held positions as a research chemist at Vick Chemical Co. and Montefiore Hospital. Mr. Innis joined the Congress of Racial Equality’s (CORE's) Harlem chapter in 1963. In 1967, Innis was appointed the first resident fellow at the Metropolitan Applied Research Center. Innis was elected national director of CORE in 1968. From this post he has drafted the Community Self-Determination Bill, toured seven African countries, rescued a Bronx Catholic school, exposed the Tawana Brawley hoax, run for mayor of NYC, established a community school, organized an anti-drug campaign, and been involved or served in several organizations.Wendy KaminerWendy Kaminer, a lawyer and social critic, writes about law, liberty, feminism, religion, and popular culture. Her latest book is Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is the author of seven previous books, including: Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety, True Love Waits: Essays and Criticism,It’s All the Rage: Crime and Culture, I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashion, and A Fearful Freedom: Women’s Flight from Equality. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times,The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect,Dissent, The Nation, and Newsweek. She is a columnist for Free Inquiry. Her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.Woody KaplanWoody Kaplan is a former Back Bay real estate developer who is now a full-time volunteer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.Herbert LondonHerbert I. London is the John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University. He was responsible for creating the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1972, and acted as its dean until 1992. In addition, he is the president of the Hudson Institute, a world-famous think tank with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and he is a tenured professor of social studies at New York University. London is a noted social critic whose work has appeared in every major newspaper and journal in the country including such diverse publications as Commentary, National Review, American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Washington Times, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Modern Age, Los Angeles Times, andForbes. He is the author and editor of 21 books, with his most recent being Decade of Denial. London is presently a syndicated columnist with Knight-Ridder. He is a contributing editor for St. Croix Review, The Social Critic, and American Arts Quarterly, and is the publisher of American Outlook.Peter MalkinPeter L. Malkin is a partner in Wien & Malkin LLP, a real estate management firm in New York City.Muriel MoriseyMuriel Morisey is an Associate Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Professor Morisey has also served as Legislative Counsel of the ACLU and at the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. While earning her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Morisey held senior staff positions with then-United States Representatives Walter Fauntroy and the late Shirley Chisholm. Professor Morisey also served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon. Professor Morisey has been extensively involved in the work of educational and other nonprofit organizations throughout her career. She has served on the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union and the boards of the ACLU Philadelphia Chapter, the Pennsylvania affiliate, and the Massachusetts affiliate. Professor Morisey is also a former Trustee of Radcliffe College (her alma mater) and, prior to joining the Temple Law faculty, she was a member of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education faculty and Director of Policy Analysis in the University’s Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs.Steven PinkerSteven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as The New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.Milton RosenbergSince 1973, Milt Rosenberg has hosted WGN Radio's Extension 720, a two-hour program dealing with topics ranging from politics to financial investment to entertainment to religion to foreign policy to literature. Past guests of note include: Margaret Thatcher, Colin Powell, Charlton Heston, William Safire, Bill Murray, Betty Friedan, Zbignew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, Norman Mailer, Henry Kissinger, and many members of the U.S. Congress. For the past five years, Talkers magazine has included Rosenberg in its “Heavy Hundred” list of the top radio personalities in the country, citing him as the “nation’s leading author interviewer.” Outside of his radio show, Rosenberg is a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, where he has served as the director of the doctoral program in social and organizational psychology. Prior to coming to Chicago, he taught at Yale University, Ohio State University, and Dartmouth College. A prolific author of numerous articles, both in professional journals and political magazines, he has also authored or co-authored a number of books, including:Attitude Organization and Change, Theories of Cognitive Consistency, Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy, Beyond Conflict and Containment: Critical Studies of Military and Foreign Policy, and Vietnam and the Silent Majority.Candace de RussyDr. Candace de Russy is a nationally recognized expert on education and cultural issues. A former college professor with a doctorate in French from Tulane University, she was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy by President George W. Bush in 2002. De Russy has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York since 1995. In 2004, she was named a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., where she focuses on academic standards, assessment, governance, strategic planning, accountability, funding and other issues in higher education. De Russy is currently a member of the Trustees Council of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Independent Women's Forum. A contributing editor at Crisis magazine, De Russy has been published in The Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York Post, among other publications. She was featured in segments on 60 Minutes and The O'Reilly Factor and has been the subject of feature articles in The New York Times, the Associated Press, and Village Voice.John SearleJohn R. Searle is the Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford. Searle possesses honorary degrees from the University of Lugano (2003), University of Turin (2000), University of Bucharest (2000), University of Wisconsin (1994), and Adelphi University (1993). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1977, he has written numerous books, including: The Campus War (1971), Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind(1983), The Construction of Social Reality (1995), The Mystery of Consciousness (1997), Mind, Language and Society, Philosophy in the Real World (1998), La Universidad Desafiada, el Attaque Postmodernista en las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales (2002), and Consciousness and Language (2002). Searle has held visiting posts, given special lectures and participated in conferences in many worldwide. He has won various prizes and awards, including: Jovellanos Prize, Spain 2000; Jean Nicod Prize, France, 2000; Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Berkeley, 1999; Homer Smith Award, New York University School of Medicine, 1993; Fulbright Award, 1983 and 1985; Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, 1987; Reith Lecturer, BBC, London, 1984; Guggenheim Fellow, 1975-76.Christina Hoff SommersChristina Hoff Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1980. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as theJournal of Philosophy and The New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers became known to the wider public as the author of The War Against Boys and Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. Her articles have appeared in such places as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, New Republic, Chicago Tribune, and Times Literary Supplement. Sommers has appeared on The McLaughlin Group, Nightline, The CBS Evening News, Crossfire, Eye to Eye, 20/20, Inside Politics, Equal Time, Politically Incorrect, and The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss such issues as the future of feminism and gender bias in the schools. Sommers earned her B.A. at New York University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy at Brandeis University in 1979.Lawrence H. SummersLawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987, Mr. Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.
He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at Harvard's Kennedy School. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children._0f18e526-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b7To defend and sustain individual rights at Americs's colleges and universities_0f18ea08-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b7Fundamental RightsFIRE's work to protect fundamental rights on campus concentrates on four areas: freedom of speech and expression; religious liberty and freedom of association; freedom of conscience; and due process and legal equality on campus. Ultimately, FIRE seeks to end the debilitating fatalism that paralyzes students and faculty by bringing public attention to the issue while providing protection to those who are now helpless in the face of abuses of power on campuses across the nation.Freedom of SpeechWhy is free speech important on campus?
Freedom of speech is a fundamental American freedom and a human right, and there’s no place that this right should be more valued and protected than America's colleges and universities. A university exists to educate students and advance the frontiers of human knowledge, and does so by acting as a "marketplace of ideas" where ideas compete. The intellectual vitality of a university depends on this competition -- something that cannot happen properly when students or faculty members fear punishment for expressing views that might be unpopular with the public at large or disfavored by university administrators.
Nevertheless, freedom of speech is under continuous threat at many of America’s campuses, pushed aside in favor of politics, comfort, or simply a desire to avoid controversy. As a result, speech codes dictating what may or may not be said, "free speech zones" confining free speech to tiny areas of campus, and administrative attempts to punish or repress speech on a case-by-case basis are common today in academia.Freedom of ExpressionReligious LibertyReligious liberty is the right to follow the faith of your choice -- or to follow no faith at all. Religious liberty is a cornerstone of our nation and is the very first freedom guaranteed to Americans by the Bill of Rights. Yet on many college and university campuses, the right to associate on the basis of religious belief and even the right to express those beliefs is under attack. Under the guise of “nondiscrimination” policies, religious groups are often told that they may not choose the membership or leadership of their groups using religious criteria. Other students who merely express religious beliefs in public are condemned and even punished for "hate speech" or "intolerance." FIRE’s cases dealing with religious liberty display our commitment to defending America’s religious pluralism by protecting students' rights to express their views and to associate around shared beliefs.Freedom of AssociationFreedom of ConscienceFreedom of conscience means the right to be free to think and believe as you will without the imposition of official coercive power over those beliefs.
Liberty cannot exist when people are forced to conform their thoughts and expression to an official viewpoint. Differences of opinion are the natural byproducts of a vibrant, free society. At many of our nation’s colleges and universities, however, students are expected to share a single viewpoint on hotly debated matters like the meaning and significance of diversity, the definition of social justice, and the impermissibility of "hate speech." Mandatory "diversity training," in which students are instructed in an officially-approved ideology, is common. Some institutions have enacted policies that require students to speak and even share approved attitudes on these matters or face disciplinary charges.Due ProcessThe right to due process refers to the idea that governmental authorities must provide fair, unbiased, and equitable procedures when determining a person’s guilt or innocence. The same principle applies to judicial hearings on college campuses; if those campuses care about the justice and accuracy of their findings, they must provide fair and consistent procedures for the accuser and the accused.
History has taught that the rights of all Americans can be secured only through the establishment of fair procedures and with a consciousness that all are equal in the eyes of the law. Yet on many campuses, the accused face "kangaroo courts" that lack fair procedures, in which the political viewpoint or institutional interests of the “judges” greatly affect the outcomes of trials. The accused are often charged with no specific offense, given no right to face their accusers, and sentenced with no regard for fairness or consistency. As a result, a generation of students is being taught the wrong lessons about justice -- and facing the ruinous consequences for their personal, academic, and professional lives. Students must come to know that justice means more than merely the enforcement of the will of the powerful and the suppression of the views of the powerless.Legal EqualityFundamental RightsDefend the fundamental rights of students and faculty members on our nation's campuses_0f18ec56-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b71College StudentsUniversity FacultyFIRE effectively and decisively defends the fundamental rights of tens of thousands of students and faculty members on our nation's campuses while simultaneously reaching millions on and off campus through education and outreach. In case after case, FIRE brings about favorable resolutions not only for those individuals facing rights violations, but also for the millions of other students affected by the culture of censorship within our institutions of higher education. In addition to our defense of specific individuals and groups, FIRE works across the nation and in all forms of media to empower campus activists, reform restrictive policies, and inform the public about the state of rights on our campuses.Individual RightsProvide assistance to individual students, professors, and campus groups whose fundamental civil liberties have been violated._0f18ee4a-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b71.1StudentsProfessorsCampus GroupsIndividual Rights Defense Program --
The Individual Rights Defense Program (IRDP) provides assistance to individual students, professors, and campus groups whose fundamental civil liberties have been violated. This program defends individuals suffering from violations of their freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, religious liberty, freedom of association, and due process and legal equality. Working through outreach to administrators, the strategic use of publicity to generate public attention and pressure, and, when necessary, the coordination of legal counsel and action in the courts, the IRDP has secured hundreds of victories for students and faculty members since FIRE’s founding. For more information about recent IRDP cases and past victories, visit FIRE’s case archives. Policy ReformChallenge campus policies that violate students' and faculty members' fundamental rights._0f18f0c0-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b71.2College StudentsUniversity FacultyPolicy Reform Project --
The Policy Reform Project encompasses FIRE's efforts to proactively and systematically challenge campus policies that violate students’ and faculty members’ fundamental rights. Through in-depth research and legal and public advocacy, this project secures vital reforms to some of the nation’s most egregious speech codes. Using research from FIRE’s Spotlight Database, the Policy Reform Project targets speech codes through correspondence with campus administrators, on-campus collaboration with student allies, and public awareness initiatives including our “Speech Code of the Month” and annual speech code report. The Policy Reform Project also works to advance FIRE’s mission in the legal field, connecting with attorneys nationwide through our Legal Network, publishing legal scholarship, and filing amicus briefs in key cases. Finally, FIRE's Legislative and Policy Project works to support these efforts by combatting government policies that threaten to erode free speech protections and by advocating for greater legislative and legal protections for individual rights in higher education.Speech LitigationEliminate unconstitutional speech codes._0f18f2f0-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b71.3FIRE's Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project --
The Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project is a large-scale national effort to eliminate unconstitutional speech codes through targeted First Amendment lawsuits. Building on FIRE’s overwhelmingly successful speech code litigation, this Project coordinates legal challenges against some of the nation's worst policies, in conjunction with reform and publicity efforts. Working in rapid succession and in multiple federal circuits, the Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project seeks to generate additional legal precedent, widespread media coverage, and numerous policy revisions. Ultimately, this Project is working to generate the pressure necessary to rebalance the incentives on campus in favor of free expression.Student NetworkAdvance individual liberties on campuses in partnership with FIRE._0f18f4f8-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b71.4College StudentsUniversity Faculty FIRE Student NetworkThe FIRE Student Network (FSN) is a dynamic coalition of students and faculty members dedicated to advancing individual liberties on their campuses in partnership with FIRE. This network works to safeguard liberties on campuses nationwide by generating on-campus reform, spreading awareness among students and faculty members on campus, and petitioning administrators for change. The FSN's annual conference, summer internship, on-campus speeches, and various outreach programs teach students the philosophy of liberty and provide workshops on strategies for action. In addition to assisting individual students and working for policy reform, members’ very presence on campus helps safeguard liberty for whole campuses by maintaining long-term pressure on administrators to change immoral and unconstitutional policies and practices -- and maintain policies that do protect fundamental rights. FSN members have organized critical reform campaigns; served as plaintiffs for speech code litigation efforts; written articles for key campus publications; and much more.Education & OutreachReach millions on and off campus through education and outreach._0f18f78c-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b72ResourcesProvide resources to proactively support campus freedom._0f18f9d0-80e3-11e4-97d7-ac3964e4b5b72.1High School StudentsHigh School TeachersThe PublicIndividual Rights Education Program --
In addition to defending rights across the country, FIRE also provides individuals with the resources to proactively support campus freedom through our Individual Rights Education Program (IREP). This program educates thousands through key educational resources like FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus and our "College Bill of Rights" high school curriculum. The IREP also works more broadly to educate the public about the state of liberty on our nation's campuses, raising awareness and generating public pressure for reform through media outreach, videos, and publicity efforts. FIRE's media engagement, multimedia and social media outreach, and print publications reach millions of Americans every year, sparking critical discussions of key campus issues and First Amendment concerns.2014-12-10OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net