Communications and Society Program

FOCAS 2008 Participants

Participants and Speakers

Aspen, Colorado  •  August 10-12, 2008

Jonathan Adelstein
Commissoner
Federal Communications
  Commission

Richard Adler
President
People & Technology

Madeleine Albright
Principal
The Albright Group

Philip Bennett
Managing Editor
The Washington Post Company

danah boyd
PhD Candidate
School of Information
University of California-Berkeley

Gaston Caperton
President
College Board

Idit Caperton
Founder and President
World Wide Workshop Foundation, 
   and
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
MaMaMedia Inc.

John Carroll
Former Editor of the
Los Angeles Times

Robert Decherd
President and Chief Executive Officer
Belo Corporation

Charles M. Firestone
Executive Director
Communications & Society
   Program
The Aspen Institute

Brian Fisher
Media Director
Roll International

Jordan Greenhall

Patricia de Stacy Harrison
President and Chief Executive Officer
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

John Hart
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Democracy Institute

Reed E. Hundt
Senior Advisor
McKinsey & Company

Walter Isaacson
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute

Benjamin Jealous       
President-Elect, NAACP
President, Rosenberg Foundation

Henry Jenkins
Director
Comparative Media Studies 
   Program, and
Full Professor of Literature
Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology

Mary Junck
President and Chief Executive Officer
Lee Enterprises, Inc.

Gary Kebbel
Journalism Program Director      
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Paula Kerger
President and Chief Executive  
   Officer
Public Broadcasting Service

Michael Klein
Chairman
The Sunlight Foundation/CoStar Group, Inc.        

Eric Klinenberg
Associate Professor of Sociology
New York University

Bill Kling
President and Chief Executive
   Officer
American Public Media

Cyrus Krohn
Director
e-Campaign
Republican National Committee

John Kunzweiler
Retired Senior Partner
Accenture

Michael Lomax
President and CEO
United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Monica Lozano
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Lisa MacCallum
Managing Director
Nike Foundation

Marissa Mayer
Vice President, Search Products
   and User Experience
Google

Chris Neimeth
Publisher
Salon Media Group

Craig Newmark
Founder and Customer Service
   Representative
craigslist

Donna Nicely
Director
Nashville Public Library

Phil Noble
President
Politics Online, Inc.

John Oliver, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Afro-American Newspaper

Theodore B. Olson
Former Solicitor General of the
   United States
   and
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Diana Owen
Associate Professor of Political
  Science and Director of
  American Studies
Georgetown University

Andrew Prozes
Chief Executive Officer
Lexis Nexis Group

Robin Reiter-Faragalli
Reiter & Associates, LLC

John Rendon
President
The Rendon Group, Inc.

Philip Rosedale
Founder
    and
Chairman of the Board
Second Life

Tom Rosenstiel
Director
Project for Excellence in Journalism

Paul Sagan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Akamai

Peter M. Shane
Executive Director
Knight Commission
   on the Information Needs of
   Communities in a Democracy

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press

William Dean Singleton
Vice Chairman
    and
Chief Executive Officer
MediaNews Group, Inc.

Jeff Smulyan
Chief Executive Officer and
   Chairman of the Board
Emmis Communications

Chrisopher Solmseen
Director, Media and Telecom
Credit Suisse

Rachel Sterne
Founder
Ground Report, LLC

Adrian Talbott
Executive Director
Generation Engage

Loris Ann Taylor
Executive Director
Native Public Media

Staff:

Patricia Kelly
Assistant Director
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Erin Silliman
Project Manager
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Sarah Snodgress
Project Manager
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

To view the full list of participants and speakers at the 2007 Forum on Communications and Society, please visit www.aspeninstitute.org/focas2007.