Nico Perrino
FIREStaff Speaker
Nico Perrino is ֭'s Executive Vice President and the creator and host of ֭’s . Prior to his current role, he led ֭'s Communications department for nearly a decade, most recently as its Senior Vice President of Communications.
Nico previously worked in the Communications department at the Institute for Justice. His writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian, and he regularly appears on radio and TV to speak about free speech and other civil liberties issues.
As a documentarian, Nico was Co-Director and Senior Producer of “” (2020), a feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser. He also worked as a consultant on “” (2015) and "" (2024).
Nico graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington (IU) with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history. While at IU, he was a member of the track & field team and served as editor-in-chief for the Indiana Standard and as a reporter and columnist for the Indiana Daily Student.
Originally from Chicago, Nico now lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area.
Recent Writings
- FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand censorship. End it. ,
- What happens when America's future leaders reject the liberty on which it was founded?,
- In defunding Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, legislators force academic freedom back into the closet,
- No, a heckler’s veto is not ‘more speech’,
- Defending Free speech is a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it: SPIN magazine interviews Nico Perrino of ֭,
- Free speech was under fire in 2022,
- Free speech culture, Elon Musk, and Twitter,
- ‘So to Speak’ podcast: Elon Musk, PayPal, and is New York trying to destroy Twitch?,
- ‘So to Speak’ podcast: Does your book need a sensitivity reader?,
- ‘So to Speak’ podcast: What does the First Amendment protect on social media?,
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