Jonathan S. Adelstein was sworn in as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on December 3, 2002, and sworn in for a new five-year term on December 6, 2004.
Before joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as a staff member in the United States Senate. For the last seven years, he was a senior legislative aide to United States Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), where he advised Senator Daschle on telecommunications, financial services, transportation and other key issues. Previously, he served as Professional Staff Member to Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman David Pryor (D-AR), including an assignment as a special liaison to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI).
Prior to his service in the Senate, Adelstein held a number of academic positions, including: Teaching Fellow in the Department of History, Harvard University; Teaching Assistant in the Department of History, Stanford University; and Communications Consultant to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Adelstein received a B.A. with Distinction in Political Science from Stanford University, an M.A. in History from Stanford University, studied at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society.
Adelstein was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota. He now lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Karen, son Adam and daughter Lexi.
Claudia Bach
President , Lead Consultant, AdvisArts Consulting, LINC/WAHIP
Claudia Bach, principal and founder of AdvisArts Consulting, is noted for bringing creative yet pragmatic solutions to the challenges of the cultural sector. She is committed to helping cultural organizations and individual artists tackle questions with timely information, enhanced skills, honesty and openness to unexpected answers. Claudia brings more than twenty-five years of professional experience in the arts to her consulting clients.
Currently she is the lead consultant for Leveraging Investments in Creativitys (LINC's)national and state-based initiatives to expand access to insurance for artists. This includes the Washington Artists Health Insurance Project (WAHIP) which is undertaking research and innovative strategy development as a model project. Claudia is also currently involved with an arts participation initiative, professional development programs for artists, and various strategic planning efforts with cultural organizations. She played a key role in the expansion of the Henry Art Gallery, the art museum of the University of Washington, and she has held staff positions with a diverse range of arts and educational organizations in Washington, Massachusetts and New York. Her background includes public and community affairs, cultural planning, marketing and media relations, partnership development, board and fund development, exhibition development, educational programming as well as research. Claudia has spoken and published on a range of arts and cultural topics and she is a frequent presenter of workshops and classes.
Michael Bracy
Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition
Michael Bracy is a partner with Bracy Tucker Brown in Washington, DC and a co-founder of the Future of Music Coalition. He is Executive Director of the Low Power Radio Coalition, which advocates on behalf of community-based Low Power FM radio stations. He co-founded and is a partner with the independent record label Misra, home to Mendoza Line, Jenny Toomey, Chris Lee and others. Between 1990 and 1997, he produced distance education courses, videotapes and multimedia titles for RXL Pulitzer, an educational communications firm based in Seattle. Michael writes and speaks widely on issues related to the politics of the music and media industries, including recent appearances on National Public Radio, CNBC, SXSW, CMJ, among others.
Ann Chaitovitz
National Director of Sound Recordings, AFTRA
Ann Chaitovitz is the National Director of Sound Recordings at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the labor union representing recording singers, as well as performers and broadcasters in radio and television. She joined AFTRA in 1995 as National Representative/Staff Counsel, focusing on copyright and performers rights issues. She was named Sound Recordings Director in 2001.
Based in Washington, D.C., Chaitovitz participates in collective bargaining, as well as intellectual property litigation and Copyright Office proceedings, including the Copyright Arbitration Rates Panels (CARP) to set rates for the digital performance of copyrighted sound recordings. She worked in alliance with the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) to ensure passage of the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of 1998. She then worked to ensure that artists performance royalties be paid directly to the artists and that artists jointly control SoundExchange, the performance royalty collective.
In the U.S., Chaitovitz has collectively bargained to require that all recording singers under contract to a label receive health insurance and taken a lead role in lobbying for several artists rights issues including radio consolidation, payola, and label accounting. She worked to repeal the amendment to the work made for hire definition, to ensure the direct payment of digital performance fees to artists and to change the structure of SoundExchange, so that artists would share control. Internationally, she works to assure that other countries respect the rights of U.S. performers and negotiates with foreign countries collecting societies to ensure that U.S. performers receive their share of royalties from that country.
She holds degrees from Amherst College (BA, cum laude) and New York University School of Law, serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC), the Future of Music Coalition Advisory Board, and participated in the American Assembly on Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property. Prior to joining AFTRA, Chaitovitz worked as a labor associate at New York law firm Milgrim, Thomajan & Lee, and then as a staff attorney at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), where she practiced copyright law.
Jeffrey P. Cunard
Esquire, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Biograph of Jeffrey P. Cunard:
Jeffrey P. Cunard practices in the areas of intellectual property, information technology and telecommunications. His most recent engagements include advice on a wide range of digital media, copy protection, electronic commerce, including electronic publishing, and other matters relating to the use of the Internet. Mr. Cunard represents companies interested in the availability of music and motion pictures in new digital media, including on-line, and in the development and use of various encryption and watermarking technologies. He also represents providers of on-line services and companies on computer software-related matters, including representation of both vendors and customers in structuring, drafting and disputes involving information technology and other computer software development and licensing arrangements, including outsourcing transactions. In addition, he advises both domestic and foreign telecommunications companies and telecommunications users on regulatory and corporate matters and service arrangements.
Mr. Cunard is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise & Plimpton, which has its principal office in New York, European offices in Paris, London, Frankfurt and Moscow and offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He graduated summa cum laude in English and Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1977 and received a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., in Los Angeles, California. He speaks widely on and is the author of and a contributor to various articles on intellectual property and communications law. He also is a member of the editorial boards of E-Commerce Law & Strategy, where he writes on legal issues relating to computer software and digital technologies, and Cable TV and New Media Law and Finance, for which he authors the monthly "FCC Watch" column.
Mr. Cunard and his partner, Bruce P. Keller, are co-authors of a comprehensive practitioner's guide on U.S. copyright law, published by Practising Law Institute (2001-03). He also co-authors three chapters, on "Copyright," "Obscenity and Indecency" and "Trademark and Unfair Competition Issues," in Internet and Online Law (K. Stuckey, ed.) (1996-2002), published by Law Journal Seminars-Press. He also authored "Property of the Mind: Software and the Law," for The Future of Software (1995), published by MIT Press, and is a co-author of two books on international communications law, From Telecommunications to Electronic Services (1986) and The Telecom Mosaic (1988), both published by Butterworths.
Mr. Cunard is Counsel to the College Art Association and a member of its Board of Directors.
Michael Daum
Legislative Affairs, Office of Senator Cantwell
Adam Forest
Executive Director, Fractured Atlas
Adam Forest is the founder and Executive Director of Fractured Atlas, a national, multi-disciplinary, non-profit arts service organization. Since launching Fractured Atlas in 1997, he has increased the organization's annual budget from $7,500 to $1,200,000 and launched numerous broad-based service initiatives. As a performing arts producer, he has developed and presented new work in New York, NY; Washington, DC; Richmond, VA; Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England; and Tokyo, Japan. He has also worked as a theatre director, an actor, a playwright, and a musician, and has performed or presented in such venues as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and London's Pleasance Theatre.
Adam has been working to provide affordable health insurance options for artists since 2001, when he launched the Artists Affordable Healthcare Initiative. Fractured Atlas is currently the leading provider of healthcare programs to artists of all disciplines, with over 1200 covered individuals. In early 2005, Fractured Atlas launched the Open Arts Network, which aims to make the company's healthcare plans available through other arts organization's nationwide.
William Foster
Assistant Principal Violist, National Symphony Orchestra
Bill Foster is assistant principal violist with the National Symphony Orchestra of which he has been a member since 1968. His son, Daniel, is principal violist with the National Symphony, wonderful testimony to the musicality of the Foster family.
Throughout his career with the National Symphony, Bill has been active in the overall affairs of the organization. He has served several terms as chair of the orchestra committee and has served on the artistic advisory committee. He has also served on executive director and music director search committees and on several board long-range planning committees. He is currently a member of the national Electronic Media Forum.
He holds a bachelors degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a masters degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
David Goodman
President, Marketing, Infinity Broadcasting
Jim Griffin
CEO, Cherry Lane Digital
Jim Griffin is CEO of Cherry Lane Digital. Cherry Lane is dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art.
In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. Before starting Cherry Lane Digital, he started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.
While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States.
Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho's many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media.
Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses.
In addition to work with music, his expertise includes wireless work in Europe, including at Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He's moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, ranging from music conferences to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.
"One of the sharpest minds in digital music." - CNN Money (Eric Hellweg, Thursday 23 January 2003)
"Entertainment Technology Visionary." - Los Angeles Times (Paul Karon, Monday 8 April 1996)
Dan Halyburton
SR VP/GM, Susquehanna Radio
DAN HALYBURTON
Susquehanna Radio Corp.
3500 Maple Avenue, Suite #1600
Dallas, Texas 75219
Phone: (214) 520-4331
Mission
Broadcasting 1970 WWOK; Miami, Florida
Production Director
Air Personality
Park
Broadcasting 1973 WTVR; Richmond, Virginia
Production Director
Air Personality
Greater Media 1974 WTCR; Huntington, West Virginia
Program Director
Air Personality
Top Rated Country
Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1976 WFMS; Indianapolis, Indiana
Program Director
Air Personality
Storz
Broadcasting 1977 WDGY; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Program Director
Storz
Broadcasting 1980 WQAM; Miami, Florida
Program Director Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1981 KPLX/KLIF; Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas
Operations Manager
Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1982 KPLX/KLIF; Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas
Station Manager
Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1983 KPLX/KLIF; Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas
To 1985 Vice President/General Manager
Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1985 KPLX/KLIF/KTCK/KKMR; Dallas/Ft.Worth, Texas To 1999 Sr. Vice President/Market Manager
Susquehanna
Broadcasting 1999
To date Senior Vice President/General Manager
Group Operations
Susquehanna Radio Corp.
ORGANIZATIONS
Current Member, Associated Press Broadcast Advisory Board
Current Member, University of North Texas (Dept. of Radio, Television and Film)
Industry Advisory Board
Current Member, Texas Wesleyan University Radio Advisory Board
Current Board Member, Country Radio Broadcasters (produces the annual Country Radio Seminar & Regional CRS Events)
Current Board Member, Country Music Association/Past Chairman, Past President
Past Board Member, Texas Association of Broadcasters
Past Chairman, North Texas Multiple Sclerosis Society
Past Chairman/Representative, Arbitron Advisory Council
Past President, Dallas/Ft.Worth Association of Radio Managers
Past Agenda Committee Member, Country Radio Seminar
Past Committee Member, National Association of Broadcasters - Radio Programming Conference
Suzan Jenkins
President, Jazz Alliance, International Association of Jazz Education
Suzan Jenkins career in the arts has spanned over 20 years at myriad music, recording industry and arts related organizations across the nation as President, Executive Director, Producer and Senior Vice President of Marketing. From the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz to the Rhythm and Blues Foundation to the Smithsonian Institution to the Recording Industry Association of America to her newest appointment as President of Jazz Alliance International, Inc., Suzan has conceptualized, initiated, developed, produced, implemented and successfully managed arts, educational and marketing programs and events to heighten public awareness and promote cultural appreciation and diversity. Jenkins has produced several recordings including Jazz Alliance's recent compilations Jazz Hear and Now and Smooth Jazz Hear and Now! and is the Conceptual and Executive Producer of the renowned radio series Let the Good Times Roll, produced for Public Radio International.
Suzan is a Board Member of the World Music Institute and one of the principals of Open Sky, an arts management consulting firm. Jenkins has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, Maryland and Michigan State Councils for the Arts and Arts Midwest and has served on the Advisory Board of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, the Berklee School of Music Board of Visitors, the BMI Foundation John Lennon Scholarship Program, the National Music Council, The National Association for Music Education and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Armstrong Curriculum Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, a member of NARAS and grew up in the Caribbean isles of Trinidad and San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a native of Buffalo, NY.
Joseph H. Kluger
President, The Philadelphia Orchestra Assn
Joseph H. Kluger
President
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Joseph H. Kluger has served as The Philadelphia Orchestra Associations chief executive officer since May 1989, when he was appointed Executive Director, and has held the title of President since November 1991. He joined The Philadelphia Orchestra staff in 1985 as General Manager, after seven-years with the New York Philharmonic, where he had been on staff in a variety of positions, culminating in the position of Orchestra Manager.
During Mr. Klugers tenure as President of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, he has led the search and recruitment efforts for both current Music Director Christoph Eschenbach and his predecessor, Wolfgang Sawallisch. He also played a catalytic role in the development of the Orchestras new home in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Some of the Orchestras other accomplishments under his leadership include:
· Commitments to date of $95 million, including a lead gift of $50 million from the Annenberg Foundation, towards a $125 million endowment campaign
· Development of a model relationship of cooperation and collaboration with the musicians of the Orchestra, who now play an active role in all aspects of governance and decision-making
· Establishment of a joint venture partnership with the musicians of the Orchestra, to maximize the distribution of its music via innovative electronic media technology
· Pioneering efforts to offer the Orchestras music for streaming on the Internet
· Historic tours to Vietnam (first by a U.S. symphony orchestra), Israel, China, Latin America and
· Major initiatives to increase cultural diversity, educational activities and community partnerships.
Mr. Kluger is an internationally recognized expert in the classical music industry on recordings, broadcasts, the Internet and other electronic media activities and has served for over ten years as the Chairman of the Orchestra Managers Media Committee of the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Mr. Kluger is an active participant in civic groups in the Greater Philadelphia region. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Board of Overseers of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Boards of the Arts and Business Council of Philadelphia, the Marian Anderson Award, Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College and the Musical Fund Society. He has previously served on the Board of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, of which he is a past President, the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, Mayor Rendells Cultural Advisory Council and Governor Rendells Arts and Culture Transition Team.
Mr. Kluger received a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from New York University in 1979 and his Bachelors Degree in Music in 1977 from Trinity College in Hartford. He has also participated in executive training programs throughout his career, including the Senior Executive Leadership Program of NTL Institute and the Wharton Fellows Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Kluger has also been an active performer and teacher. He is a frequent guest lecturer on leadership and arts administration at the graduate and undergraduate level at Wharton, Penn, NYU and Drexel. At Trinity College, he was a Presidents Fellow in Music and a teaching assistant in Music Theory and Music History. He has studied piano and voice, the latter including a summer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Mr. Kluger has also been both a director and performer in numerous amateur musical theater productions.
Mr. Kluger and his wife Susan Lewis an accomplished writer and attorney have four children.
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Mila Kofman
Assistant Research Professor, Health Policy Institute Georgetown University
Mila Kofman joined the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute as an Assistant Research Professor in November 2001. She conducts a range of studies on the uninsured and underinsured problems focusing on private market reforms, regulation, access, affordability, adequacy of job-based and individual health coverage, cost-shifting, and financing strategies including health savings accounts, association health plans, and discount medical cards. Ms. Kofman is a published author whose work includes a report on health insurance scams (published by BNA) and articles on state and federal health insurance reforms in peer review journals. She has presented on these topics to a wide range of audiences including elected officials, regulators, insurance industry, and consumer groups. She has also testified before the U.S. Senate. She has served as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases involving health insurance scams and unauthorized insurance.
She is recognized (and cited) as a national expert on insurance regulation, unauthorized insurance, and ERISA by the National Public Radio, CNN, CNN Financial, CBS Evening News, BusinessWeek, Consumer Reports, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Associated Press, AM Best, and other national and trade press.
Ms. Kofman was appointed to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Consumer Participation Board of Trustees in 2002 for a 2-year term and reappointed in 2004 for a 2-year term. She also serves on the Board of Directors for URAC (a health care accreditation firm).
Ms. Kofman was a federal regulator at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1997 to 2001. She worked with federal and state legislators developing health care initiatives and worked on federal legislation concerning managed care reform, access and association health plans, retiree health, Medicare prescription drug coverage, tax credits, and other proposals affecting private health coverage. Ms. Kofman developed guidance to implement HIPAA and other federal reforms. In the fall of 2000, she was a special assistant to the Senior Health Care Advisor to the President at the Domestic Policy Council at the White House assisting with legislative and regulatory health care reform initiatives including the Patients Bill of Rights, long-term care insurance, nursing home reform, and ERISA reform. In March 2000, Ms. Kofman was honored with the Labor Secretarys Exceptional Achievement Award.
Prior to joining the Department of Labor, Ms. Kofman was Counsel for Health Policy and Regulation at the Institute for Health Policy Solutions (IHPS). She researched and analyzed state initiatives on access, cost, and quality of health insurance for small businesses and individuals. She also worked with employer purchasing coalitions. Prior to joining IHPS, Ms. Kofman worked at the NAIC and a private law firm.
Ms. Kofman holds a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park (summa cum laude).
Alex Maiolo
Partner, Lee-Moore Insurance
Alex Maiolo is a partner with Lee-Moore Insurance Inc., in the Carrboro / Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. His agency insures anything from typical risks to more specialty related lines, including insurance as it relates to the artist and musician. He has been a consultant to the FMC for over four years, an active musician since the age of nine, and an active fan since he was learning to crawl. In addition to appearing on panels to discuss the state of health care in the U.S., Alex has given his time to educate young musicians as to how they can stay active in music-related projects for their entire lives. Past work includes forums at the Wade Edwards Learning Lab, a non-profit educational center started by Senator John Edwards, panel participation at the 2003 and 2004 FMC Policy Summits, TapeOp Magazine's TapeOpCon 2004, and many Arts-related projects in the Carrboro / Chapel Hill area. He will be a contributor at this year's TapeOpCon in June.
Steve Marks
General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America
Mitch Glazier is Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Industry Relations, of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade association representing the $14 billion U.S. recording industry. RIAA members, including hundreds of record labels, create, manufacture and/or distribute 90 percent of all legitimate sound recordings in the United States. Mr. Glazier serves as the chief advocate for the recorded music industry before policymakers and government officials.
The RIAAs government relations department is involved in many of the nations cutting-edge policy issues, such as copyright law in the digital age, First-Amendment-related challenges, royalty streams for record companies and artists, and international copyright agreements. As a result of Mr. Glaziers role in policy debates over new media, Details Magazine recently named him one of the nations 50 most influential men under 37.
Prior to his tenure at the RIAA, Mr. Glazier served as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. The Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all intellectual property law, including patents, copyrights and trademarks. In his capacity as Chief Counsel, Mr. Glazier served as the chief adviser to the Subcommittee and was responsible for working with members of Congress to craft legislation and amendments, organize legislative and oversight hearings and markups, and analyze and evaluate legislation referred to the Subcommittee.
Mr. Glazier served as law clerk to the Honorable Wayne R. Andersen, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and practiced law at the
Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg as an Associate in commercial litigation.
Mr. Glazier holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Policy, cum laude, from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Bars of the State of Illinois and the District of Columbia.
Chris Mays
Station Manager and Program Director, KMTT, The Mountain/Entercom Communications
BIO FOR CHRIS MAYS
KMTT Station Manager and Program Director
Chris Mays is the Station Manager and Program Director of KMTT in Seattle, Washington. The station's format is known as Adult Album Alternative, or AAA. Chris designed the format for KMTT and signed the station on the air on April 10, 1991. Chris has been the Program Director of The Mountain from its inception.
KMTT is known as "103.7, The Mountain" and it plays a broad range of adult rock from artists like Sting, Talking Heads, Jackson Browne, John Hiatt and Melissa Etheridge. The station also actively seeks and plays appropriate music from local and independent artists. The on air approach is hip, adult and upscale. KMTT is nationally recognized as one of the leaders in the AAA format and was the recipient of the Gavin Station of the Year Award for 2001. KMTT is part of the Entercom cluster in Seattle, which includes KNDD, KISW, KIRO, KBSG, KQBZ and KTTH.
Prior to creating The Mountain, Chris was the Program Director who developed KLSY, an Adult Contemporary station in Seattle. She worked for Sandusky Broadcasting for 9 years prior to joining Entercom at KMTT. She moved to Seattle in 1981 to serve as Promotion Director of KZAM, a legendary AOR station in the 70's. Chris was also the Program Director of KZAM, until switching the station to KLSY in 1983. Before that, she attended graduate school in Telecommunications at the University of Oregon in Eugene and was the Program Director of KZEL, one of the major freeform progressive stations of the 70s.
Her 30-year radio career includes on-air work as a disc jockey and news person, as well as Promotion Director and Program Director of various music formats including Adult Rock, Adult Contemporary, Jazz, Oldies and AOR. She has worked with all marketing media, designing TV commercials, which have gone to syndication and were successfully used by KGSR and WKOC. She has produced more than a dozen CDs for KMTT, including 10 live On The Mountain CDs, which have generated over $950,000 for The Wilderness Society.
Chris is a native of Columbus, Ohio. She has a B.S. in Communications from Miami University of Ohio and attended graduate school in Eugene, Oregon. She has lived in the Northwest since 1976 and in Seattle since 1981. She has a fully restored 1907 home and is an avid gardener.
Matt McConville
musician, Annapolis Musicians' Fund
Matt McConville is an eclectic singer, songwriter, and performing musician, based in Annapolis, Maryland. A fixture on the Annapolis music scene, Matt performs as a soloist, with a duo, trio, or full band. Playing a range of acoustic rock and folk material, Matt selects songs that mean something to him, and appeal to his personal philosophy on life. Both upbeat and introspective, plaintive and blissful, Matt's material celebrates life, reflects on life both ahead and behind, with a clear focus on today.
In addition to maintaining an active appearance schedule, Matt hosted the Homemade Wine performance series, which provided a forum for local musicians to showcase original material in a listening setting. Active in other aspects of the Annapolis area music scene, Matt is playing a key role in the foundation of the Annapolis Musician's Fund , a not-for-profit foundation chartered to support Annapolis area musicians in need.
Matt has also played in an integral role in staging the annual Annapolis Christmas Concert, producing four of the last five shows. This annual concert, performed at the Ram's Head On Stage showcases a wide range of Annapolis musicians playing Christmas favorites, with proceeds directed to various local charities.
Margot Nassau handles royalties, licensing, contracts and copyrights for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a unit of the Smithsonian Institution with over 2500 albums and 35,000 sound recordings available to the public. Prior to coming to Folkways in 2001, Margot was the leader of the artist management team at the Rosebud Agency in San Francisco, representing John Lee Hooker, the Robert Cray Band, Loudon Wainwright III, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, among others. She has bachelors degrees in music and business from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Nan Rubin
"Nan O'Tech", Community Media Services
NAN RUBIN has been strengthening and building infrastructure for community-based media for more than thirty years. Her business COMMUNITY MEDIA SERVICES has been providing organizational assistance and support to public television and radio stations, independent producers, media service organizations, social justice groups and foundations since 1985. Her specialties include feasibility studies, policy analysis, organizational assessments, and technical and facilities planning.
Nan built two community-based public radio stations WAIF in Cincinnati, and KUVO in Denver and she is a founder of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). On staff in Washington DC for six years, she provided technical assistance in new station start-ups, decision-making, community involvement, funding, FCC procedures, and facilities construction to more than 200 public radio stations and production groups around the country. Nan is also a founding member of AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radio Diffuseurs Communautaires/World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) an international NGO based in Montreal, Canada with members on every continent except Antarctica.
Because she has a very strong technical bent, Nan also provides technical assessments, facilities planning, and operations support for media and other non-profit groups. She drafted the instructions for completing the technical portions of the FCC's application for Low Power Radio station, and she is increasingly involved with projects that develop interactive media, analog to digital media conversions, media archiving, multi-media design, and the impact of telecommunications and new technologies on non-profits.
Nan has traveled widely to public radio, television and production facilities throughout the United States and abroad, and she has worked extensively in support of minority public radio and television producers and minority arts and media projects, in particular American Indian radio and media projects.
She is a founder and Officer of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, New York, and she serves on the Board of Native American Public Telecommunications, in Lincoln NE and the Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia. She is Secretary of the Brecht Forum, a New York center for non-sectarian progressive political education, and she sits on the Executive Committee of the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at Manhattanville College in Purchase NY, where she teaches a popular undergraduate course on Media and Social Change.
Nan holds a B.A. degree in Sociology/Mass Communications from Antioch College, Yellow Springs OH (71) and a Certificate in Public Broadcasting Management from the University of North Carolina Business School. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts and resides in New York City.
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Hannah Sassaman
Organizer, Prometheus Radio Project
Hannah Sassaman studied for a BA in English and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, class of 2001. She joined Prometheus as Program Director in the Summer of 2002. Hannah builds partnerships, coordinates outreach, and manages volunteers. Ms. Sassaman has been coordinated public participation in the FCC Localism Task Force hearings. In San Antonio, TX, she helped to get almost 700 individuals from all over Texas to testify on how to make the media more local. She also leads LPFM community participation in the advocacy process on Capitol Hill, where she has organized more than 100 visits between LPFM broadcasters and their elected representatives. Hannah works to build coalitions between existing media justice and media democracy groups and a wide diversity of allies for a better, more flexible media system, and has built partnerships on media issues with groups as diverse as Latino environmental arts groups and Christian community ministries and broadcasters. Hannah has published articles in Clamor and YES! Magazine, and is interviewed regularly for local, national, and international publications.
Jule Sigall
Associate Register for Policy & International Affa, U.S. Copyright Office
Jule L. Sigall is the Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office, where he is the head of the Office of Policy and International Affairs, which assists the Register of Copyrights in advising Congress and executive branch agencies on domestic and international copyright policy matters. He regularly represents the Copyright Office in U.S. government delegations to meetings at the World Intellectual Property Organization, including its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. He has published several articles on copyright law and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on copyright and intellectual property, including WIPO Regional Symposia and lectures at Duke University School of Law and The Catholic University of America, where he is currently an adjunct professor.
Before he was appointed Associate Register, Mr. Sigall practiced law in the Intellectual Property and Technology group of Arnold and Porter in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in copyright law and its application to new technologies. Mr. Sigall is a graduate of Duke University and a summa cum laude graduate of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he served as Note and Comment Editor of the Catholic University Law Review.
John Simson
Executive Director, SoundExchange
Gigi Sohn
President, Public Knowledge
Gigi B. Sohn is the President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge, a nonprofit organization that addresses the public's stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law. Public Knowledge seeks to ensure that the three layers of our communications system -- the physical infrastructure, the systems and the content layer -- promote fundamental democratic principles and cultural values including openness, access, and the capacity to create and compete.
Gigi serves as the chief strategist, fundraiser and public face of Public Knowledge. She is frequently quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, as well as in trade and local press. Gigi also has had articles published in the Washington Post, Variety, CNET and Legal Times. In addition, she has appeared on numerous national and local cable, broadcast television and radio programs, including the Today Show, The McNeil-Lehrer Report, Fox News Channel, C-SPANs Washington Journal and National Public Radios All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
Gigi is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program in Melbourne, Australia. In 2002 she was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, and in 2001 she was an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York City.
Gigi previously served as a Project Specialist in the Ford Foundations Media, Arts and Culture unit. In that capacity, she developed the strategic vision and oversaw grantmaking for the Foundations first-ever media policy and technology portfolio.
Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, Gigi served as Executive Director of the Media Access Project (MAP), a Washington, DC based public interest telecommunications law firm that represents citizens rights before the Federal Communications Commission and the courts. In recognition of her work at MAP, President Clinton appointed Gigi to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters (Gore Commission) in October 1997. In that same year, she was selected by the American Lawyer magazine as one of the leading public sector lawyers in the country under the age of 45.
Gigi holds a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film, Summa Cum Laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
Jenny Toomey is the Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition. She is also an intellectual, an activist and a musician.
After graduating from Georgetown University with an interdisciplinary major in Philosophy, English and Women's Studies in 1990, Jenny co-ran Simple Machines, an independent record label for eight years with FMCs Kristin Thomson. Simple Machines had over 70 releases, the most important of which was a 24-page Guide to Putting Out Records. The guide clearly and practically described the process of putting out records and CDs, while urging young artists to retain control of their work. Over 10,000 copies were sold helping to launch a countless number of independent labels and contributing to a DIY renaissance in the alternative music community throughout the 1990s.
In the past 15 years Jenny has been a composer and performer on at least 12 CDs and dozens of compilation records, singles, and even a musical. These records were released on Simple Machines and other respected independent labels including Homestead, Sub Pop and 4AD. Her second solo CD, Tempting, was released October 2002 on Misra Records.
After closing down Simple Machines in 1998, Jenny worked for three years at the Washington Post as a copywriter. She also wrote music and technology reviews for the Post, Village Voice, CNET and a variety of other music and technology publications. Here she began to understand technologys potential to transform the lives of musicians.
This fascination with technology led her to join with Kristin Thomson and Insound.com to create an online forum called The Machine in December 1999. At this site Kristin and Jenny began the process of educating themselves and other musicians about the music/technology landscape. They also began to raise critical questions regarding the artist's role in the unfolding technological revolution. After publishing an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, Jenny pulled together a board that wrote and published the original Future of Music Manifesto, and formed the non-profit Future of Music Coalition in June 2000.
In the past four years as the Executive Director of FMC, Jenny has spoken at over one hundred universities and conferences including Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Columbia's American Assembly, South By Southwest, CMJ, JazzFest, Comdex, University of Chicago, Temple University, the NARM Convention, London's Net Media, Manchester's In The City, Australia's Music Manager's Forum, the World Social Forum in Brazil, the Ford Foundations MAC Learning Circle in Ghana, Forum 21 in Chantilly, France, the Royal Copyright Society in London, NXNE in Toronto, and many others. She has been interviewed on CNN, CSPAN, NHK Japan, Tech TV, PBS, BBC, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, NPRs Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the Diane Rehm Show.
Jenny has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee, the US Copyright Office, the FCC and the FTC. In 2002 she co-taught a music and technology course at Georgetown University, and in 2003 she coordinated a national tour with respected artists Steve Earle, Tom Morello, Janeane Garofalo, Mike Mills, Jill Sobule and Boots Riley to raise awareness of US media and trade policies.
In March 2001, she was named one of Internet Weekly's "25 Unsung Heroes of the Web" and more recently received a special achievement award from the Washington Area Music Association for her activism.
David Ulmer
Director of Marketing, Motorola
Dave Ulmer is the Director of Marketing for Motorolas Media Solutions group, leading the marketing efforts for the companys seamless music solutions that span across the home, car and out in the world. Prior to joining Motorola, Dave held a variety of executive roles with digital media companies, as Director of International Business Development for Oak Technology, CEO of Earjam.com, and General Manager for Adaptecs Software Products Group which went on to become Roxio/Napster. Dave has a long history of championing and chaperoning leading edge products into mainstream consumer markets.
Diane Watson
Congresswoman, Congresswoman
Congresswoman Diane E. Watson, born in Los Angeles, is a lifetime resident of the 33rd California Congressional District. After graduating from Dorsey High School, Congresswoman Watson attended Los Angeles City College and matriculated at UCLA where she received her B.A. in Education. She also holds an M.A. in School Psychology from California State University, Los Angeles, and a PhD in Educational Administration from the Claremont Graduate School.
Her lifetime commitment to education stems from her involvement in the Los Angeles public schools where she worked as an elementary school teacher and school psychologist. She has lectured at both California State Universities at Los Angeles and Long Beach.
In 1975, Congresswoman Watson became the first African-American woman to serve on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. Her legacy there includes efforts to expand school integration and toughen academic standards.
The year 1978 marked her joining the California State Senate where she was chosen to chair, from 1981 to 1998, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She also served on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
During her tenure in the California State Senate, Congresswoman Watson became a statewide and national advocate for health care, consumer protection, women, and children. In 1993, she authored the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program Act, which led to pioneering research into the causes of birth defects, and the Residential Care Facilities Act, to ensure that senior citizens receive quality care in nursing and assisted living homes. In 1997, she introduced legislation to toughen food health safety requirements for restaurants. She also played a key role in the enactment of legislation to promote breast cancer research.
Congresswoman Watson has also been an advocate for commonsense welfare reform in the state of California. She played a major role in formulating the state of Californias TANF program , which provides education, child care, and employment to welfare recipients. She sought funding to help teen mothers complete their education and gain jobs through the Cal-Learn program.
In 1998, Congresswoman Watson served as the United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia until 2001 when she was sworn in as a Member of Congress after the death of Congressman Julian Dixon, who held the seat for 22 years. In January 2003, Congresswoman Watson was sworn in as a member of the 108th Congress.
Congresswoman Watson currently serves on the International Relations and Government Reform Committees.
