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FIRESpeakers Bureau
Research & Learn
Having a FIREstaffer come to your event to speak is an excellent opportunity to bring positive change to the state of freedom of speech and expression in America.
Executive Team
FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty.
Greg Lukianoff
President & CEO
- Coddling of the American Mind
- Canceling of the American Mind
- Cancel culture
- Promoting a culture of free expression
- Free speech on campus
Nico Perrino
Executive Vice President
- Viewpoint diversity
- Current free speech trends
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in media
Will Creeley
Legal Director
- Free speech on campus / grade school
- Why free speech is worth fighting for
- Free speech and social media
- Free speech and its exceptions
Ronnie London
General Counsel
- Free speech in media
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in public forums
- Commercial speech
- Freedom of information
Alex Morey
Vice President of Campus Advocacy
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Cultivating a free speech culture on campus
- Campus free speech trends
- Student governments & free speech
Bob Corn-Revere
Chief Counsel
- Book censorship
- Free speech in the digital age
- Sex and censorship
- Comedy and the First Amendment
Campus Rights Advocacy
Our Campus Rights Advocacy team provides free assistance to students and faculty facing civil liberties violations on America’s college and university campuses.
Lindsie Rank
Director of Campus Rights Advocacy
- Free speech on campus
- Campus protest
- Student press freedom
- Media law for student journalists
Connor Murnane
Campus Advocacy Chief of Staff
- Free speech on campus
- Freedom of speech in American political thought
- Mobilizing for speech reform on campus
Zach Greenberg
Faculty Legal Defense Counsel
- Free speech on campus
- Academic freedom and faculty rights
- Due process on campus
- Freedom of association
- Fraternities, Sororities, and student group rights
Graham Piro
Faculty Legal Defense Fund Fellow
- Free speech on campus
- Current free speech trends
- Faculty speech rights: A primer
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Dominic Coletti
Program Officer
- Media law
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
Haley Gluhanich
Senior Program Officer
- Free speech on campus
- Why protect hate speech?
- Due process on campus
- Academic freedom and faculty rights
Robert Shibley
Special Counsel
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Navigating campus speech policies
Litigation
FIRE's litigation team seeks to protect Americans’ free speech rights by defending them in the courts and creating lasting legal precedents. Our lawyers also work to position FIREas a thought leader in First Amendment jurisprudence by submitting amicus briefs in strategically chosen cases and publishing legal scholarship.
Adam Steinbaugh
Attorney
- When to Pull the FIREAlarm
- First Amendment in the digital age
Gabe Walters
Attorney
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
Conor Fitzpatrick
Supervising Senior Attorney
- Social media regulation
- DEI requirements
- Free speech on campus
- Right to protest
Daniel Ortner
Attorney
- Media law
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
Jeff Zeman
Staff Attorney
- Civil rights litigation
- Qualified Immunity
- Prisons and the First Amendment
- Free speech in K-12 schools
- Legal writing
Communications
FIRE's vision is an America in which people overwhelmingly believe in the right of others to freely express views different from their own, and expect their laws and educational institutions to reflect and teach this belief.
Daniel Burnett
Senior Director of Communications
- Free speech on campus
- Free speech in media
Sarah McLaughlin
Senior Scholar, Global Expression
- Higher education and authoritarianism
- China and campus censorship
- Authoritarian censorship in free countries
- The state of global censorship today
Angel Eduardo
Senior Writer and Editor
- Free expression in the arts
- Communicating across political, ideological, and cultural differences
- Free speech in the digital age
Legislative Policy Reform
FIRE works closely with lawmakers across the country and political spectrum to protect civil liberties.
Tyler Coward
Lead Counsel, Government Affairs
- Free speech on campus
- Due process on campus
- Free speech in the digital age
- Navigating campus speech policies
Policy Priorities
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Our Legislative Policy Reform team supports ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s mission on both a state and federal level by advocating on behalf of rights-protective legislation and against proposed laws that threaten student and faculty rights.
College Policy Reform
FIRE’s college policy reform team works to proactively and systematically challenge campus policies that violate college students’ and faculty members’ free speech rights.
Laura Beltz
Director, Policy Reform
- Identifying restrictive speech policies
- Rewriting speech codes on campus
- Collaborating with campus administrators on reform efforts
- Implementing educational programming on free speech topics
Mary Griffin
Senior Program Officer, Policy Reform
- Free speech on campus
- Revising restrictive speech policies
- Getting involved in policy reform efforts on campus
- Crafting and advocating for free expression statements
Model Speech Policies
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FIRE catalogs campus speech codes — policies that impermissibly regulate or restrict student expression — at hundreds of American colleges and universities. Use these model policies to improve speech codes on your campus.
Research
Data fuels ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s policy awareness and college reform advocacy efforts, giving us the ability to directly work with administrators to offer analysis and advice.
Sean Stevens
Chief Research Advisor
- College Free Speech Rankings
- How to leverage ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's data
- Campus deplatforming & the heckler's veto
- Misconceptions about campus censorship
- Free speech trends on campus
Ryne Weiss
Director of Research
- Free speech in the digital age
- Current free speech trends on campus
Research Library
Keep Reading
Explore ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's expansive library of research and reports on free speechand other civil liberties.
More Speakers
Aaron Terr
Director, Public Advocacy
- Free speech in K-12 schools
- Free speech in the digital age
- The First Amendment and municipal government
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Director, Strategic Partnerships
- Importance of a free speech culture
- Free expression in the arts
- Building a free speech coalition
FIREFellows
Nadine Strossen
Senior Fellow
- Free speech
- Intellectual freedom
- Civil discourse
Jacob Mchangama
Senior Fellow
- History & future of free speech
- Free speech and racial justice
- Free speech in the digital age
- Free speech in Europe vs. the US
- Free speech and human rights
