Members of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy

Co-Chairs

Tony Marx
President
The New York Public Library		 Jamie Woodson
Former President and Chief Executive Officer
State Collaborative On Reforming Education

Ex-Officio

Alberto Ibargüen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Knight Foundation		 Daniel Porterfield
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Aspen Institute

Commissioners

Raney Aronson-Rath
Executive Producer
FRONTLINE PBS		 Joanne Lipman
Author and former Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer/Editor-in-Chief
Gannett and USA Today
Meredith Artley
Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief CNN Digital		 Nuala O’Connor
President and Chief Executive Officer
Center for Democracy and Technology
Stephen Carter
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
Yale University		 Eduardo Padrón
President
Miami Dade College
Perry Chen
Founder and Chairman
Kickstarter		 Eduardo Peñalver
Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Nonny De La Peña
Founder and CEO
Emblematic Group		 Deb Roy
Director, Laboratory for Social Machines and Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Lab
Richard Edelman
Chief Executive Officer
Edelman Public Relations		 Christopher Ruddy
Chief Executive Officer
NewsMax
Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and Mosbacher Director Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law Freeman
Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
Stanford University		 Mizell Stewart III
Vice President, News Operations
Gannett and USA TODAY
Theaster Gates
Founder
Rebuild Foundation		 Charles Sykes
Editor-in-Chief
The Bulwark
Richard Gingras
Vice President, News
Google		 John Thornton
Founder
Texas Tribune
Sean Gourley
Chief Executive Officer
Primer		 Anthea Watson Strong
Product Manager for News
Facebook
Amy Gutmann
President
University of Pennsylvania		 Jonathan Zittrain
Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School
H. Fisk Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer
SC Johnson