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About the Authors

About the Authors

Angela J. Campbell is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has directed the Citizens Communications Center Project of the Institute for Public Representation for the past ten years. Professor Campbell supervises law students and graduate fellows in providing pro bono legal services to citizens on a broad range of communications policy issues. Her recent articles on communications policy include the essay, "Lessons from Oz: Quantitative Guidelines for Children's Educational Television," published in 20 HASTINGS COMM/ENT 119 (1997). Professor Campbell holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, and a B.A. from Hampshire College.

Forrest P. Chisman is president of the Southport Institute for Policy Analysis. Mr. Chisman has worked in and around communications policy for much of his career. His experience includes positions at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where he served as Director of the Office of Planning and Policy Coordination and Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy Analysis and Development, as well as nonprofit-sector positions at The Aspen Institute and The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. More recently, Mr. Chisman's work has focused on education, employment, and social welfare policies. He holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford Universities.

Robert Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., specializing in First Amendment and communications law. He has written extensively on First Amendment issues. Mr. Corn-Revere also serves as chairman of the Media Institute's First Amendment Advisory Council and is an adjunct scholar to the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Before joining Hogan & Hartson, Mr. Corn-Revere was Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner James Quello, and was named Chief Counsel during Mr. Quello's tenure as chairman of the Commission. A former journalist, he holds degrees from Eastern Illinois University and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and received his J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University.

Anthony Corrado is Associate Professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he teaches courses on American politics and political theory. He is considered to be one of the nation's leading experts on campaign finance and presidential elections. Dr. Corrado is currently a member of the American Bar Association's Advisory Commission on Election Law, and previously served as executive director of the Twentieth Century Fund's Task Force on Presidential Debates. In addition to being the author or co-author of several books on campaigns and elections, Dr. Corrado has been a consultant to a number of political campaigns, including the 1992 Kerrey for President and Clinton for President campaigns, the 1988 Dukakis campaign, and the Mondale and Carter campaigns. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Boston College, and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Catholic University.

D. Karen Frazer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communications Studies at Northwestern University. Her current research examines competition policy affecting telecommunications and media industries in industrialized countries.

Henry Geller has had an extensive career in communications law and policy. He is currently Communications Fellow at The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, where he focuses on telecommunications policy issues and research. He spent most of his career at the Federal Communications Commission, where he served as General Counsel from 1964 to 1970 and then as Special Assistant to the Chairman until June 1973. His service in government continued at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where Mr. Geller was Assistant Secretary of Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from 1978 to January, 1981. Throughout the 1980s he directed Duke University's Washington Center for Public Policy Research.

Andrew Graham has been acting master of Balliol College, Oxford University, since January 1998 and a professor at Balliol since 1969. He has been a political advisor for the British Labour Party and was the Prime Minister's advisor from 1992-1994. At Balliol, Professor Graham leads the research project, "The Information Superhighway: Market Structure, Access and Citizenship."

Monroe E. Price is Fellow at the Media Studies Center, Communications Fellow at The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, and Dancigar Professor at the Benjamin Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University in New York City. He is also co-director of the Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has extensive experience in international media law and policy. At Cardozo, he is the editor of the Post-Soviet Media Law and Policy Newsletter and Director of the Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society. His academic career includes positions as Dean of the Cardozo Law School and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. After graduating from Yale University and Yale Law School, he served as an assistant to U.S. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, and clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. His publications include Television, the Public Sphere and National Identity.

Andrew L. Shapiro is the newly-appointed director of the The Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. He is also a fellow at Harvard Law School's Center for Internet and Society. A contributing editor at The Nation, he writes regularly about law, politics, and technology for The Nation and for other publications. Mr. Shapiro is the author of a forthcoming book on the politics of the new media, to be published by the Twentieth Century Fund. Mr. Shapiro graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. He received a law degree from Yale Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and afterwards served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Tracy Westen is president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, a nonprofit organization that researches and proposes ways to improve the processes of state and local government. He is also the executive director of the California Commission on Campaign Finance. As founder of The California Channel, a statewide cable network providing gavel-to-gavel legislative coverage, and president of The Democracy Network, a new system of free political communication on the Internet, Mr. Westen has been instrumental in the development of new media to serve the information needs of citizens and voters. Westen teaches communications law and policy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and at the UCLA Law School. He is the author of ten books on campaign financing, ballot initiatives, and media reform, including The New Gold Rush: Financing California's Legislative Campaigns and Democracy by Initiative.

Steven S. Wildman is Associate Professor in the Department for Communication Studies and director of the Program in Telecommunications Science, Management and Policy at Northwestern University. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on communication economics and policy, and is co-editor of the forthcoming publication, Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through A Multidisciplinary Perspective.

The Editors:

Charles M. Firestone is Executive Vice President at The Aspen Institute and Executive Director of the Institute's Communications and Society Program. The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the quality of leadership through informed dialogue. As executive vice president, Mr. Firestone oversees 17 Institute policy programs and is responsible for the Institute's international partnerships, with Institute partners currently located in France, Italy, Germany, and Japan. Prior to his position with The Aspen Institute, Mr. Firestone was director of the Communications Law Program at the University of California at Los Angeles and an adjunct professor at the UCLA Law School. Mr. Firestone has also held positions as an attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, as director of litigation for a Washington, D.C. based public interest law firm, and as a communications and entertainment attorney in Los Angeles. He has argued several landmark communications cases before the United States Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts. Mr. Firestone holds degrees from Amherst College and Duke University Law School, and is the editor or co-author of seven books.

Amy Korzick Garmer is Associate Director of The Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program. She has researched and written on a variety of topics in the field of communications, and is the editor of Investing in Diversity: Advancing Opportunities for Minorities and the Media, and co-author of Creating a Learning Society: Initiatives for Education and Technology. Previously, Ms. Garmer served on the staff of U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and as special assistant at the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.