Staff

Staff

  • Berin Szoka,
    President

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    bszoka@techfreedom.org
    @BerinSzoka
    bszoka@techfreedom.org

    Berin Szoka is the founder of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on regulations affecting the Internet and telecommunications industries. Before joining Latham's Communications Practice Group, Szoka practiced at Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma. 

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  • Adam Marcus,
    Chief Operations Officer

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    amarcus@techfreedom.org
    @AdamD_Marcus
    amarcus@techfreedom.org

    Adam Marcus is Chief Operations Officer at TechFreedom. He was most recently a Research Fellow & Senior Technologist at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Prior to PFF, he worked as a technical writer for Citrix Systems, Inc., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Transportation. He has also interned at the California Public Utilities Commission and the Cato Institute and provided technical consulting to a number of non-profits. Marcus received his law degree from Santa Clara University, his MA in Communications, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University, and his BA in English from the University of Florida.

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  • Will Rinehart,
    Research Fellow

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    wrinehart@techfreedom.org
    @Will_Rinehart
    wrinehart@techfreedom.org

    William Rinehart is a Research Fellow at TechFreedom. For most of the last decade he has been involved in print publications, beginning first as a reporter for the Illini Media Company, and then moving to production management and advertising. Because of his skill set, he was asked to be the editor-in-chief of a small magazine in central Illinois, which he helped to expand and migrate online. He was previously a Koch Summer Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, concentrating on advertising policy and Internet governance. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate at the Illinois Policy Institute, where he studied state-level budget, energy and tax issues. 

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Adjunct Fellows

  • Larry Downes,
    Senior Adjunct Fellow

    @LarryDownes
    @LarryDownes

    Larry Downes is an Internet analyst and consultant, helping clients develop business strategies in an age of constant disruption caused by information technology.

    Downes is author of Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Harvard Business School Press, 1998), which was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever published on business and technology.

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  • James E. Dunstan,
    Senior Adjunct Fellow

    Jim Dunstan is a practicing telecommunications, information technology, and outer space attorney, and founder of Mobius Legal Group, PLLC. Jim has been in private practice for over 25 years, and has been involved in cutting edge technologies since the early 1980s.

    He was part of the litigation team that secured the first cellular radio licenses from the FCC in 1984, wrote the end user license agreement for the first commercially successful electronic mail system in 1983, and helped overturn the FCC's Fairness Doctrine in 1989. Jim provided legal counsel to the "fathers" of the Internet as the world wide web developed in the late 1980s. In outer space, Jim drafted and negotiated the lease for the Russian space station Mir, and provided legal counsel for the first television commercial shot aboard the International Space Station.

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  • Charlie Kennedy,
    Senior Adjunct Fellow

    Charlie Kennedy has been involved in communications law since the 1980s, when he worked on the AT&T divestiture litigation. He is currently a partner at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, where he advises clients on a broad range of communications law, privacy law, and related issues, including compliance with FCC and Federal Trade Commission regulations, and privacy and data protection statutes. He teaches courses in communications law and cyberlaw at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, and writes and speaks extensively on communications law issues.

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  • Geoffrey Manne,
    Senior Adjunct Fellow

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    @geoffmanne

    Currently the Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), a global think tank, Professor Manne also serves as Lecturer in Law for Lewis & Clark Law School. In this capacity he lends his expertise to various law school endeavors and teaches the school's Law and Economics course. The ICLE's website is at www.laweconcenter.org.

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  • Joshua Wright,
    Senior Adjunct Fellow

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    jwright@techfreedom.org
    @Josh_D_Wright
    jwright@techfreedom.org

    Joshua Wright is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. Professor Wright was recently appointed as the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he served until Fall 2008. Professor Wright was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Searle Center at the Northwestern University School of Law during the 2008-09 academic year. Professor Wright also regularly lectures on economics, empirical methods, and antitrust economics to state and federal judges through the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Judicial Education Program.

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