MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Emeritus Professor, Annenberg School for Communication at USC
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- Professor, Michigan State University College of Law
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- Chief Legal Officer at HubSpot
Alyssa Harvey Dawson is Chief Legal Officer at HubSpot where she is responsible for overseeing the company's legal and compliance teams. She has over 20 years of broad-based legal experience overseeing corporate governance, corporate, M&A and commercial transactions, enterprise risk management, compliance, data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory and governmental/public affairs. Alyssa was Gusto, Inc.'s Chief Legal Officer for over two years. While at Gusto, Alyssa was on the executive leadership team and oversaw the company's legal, compliance and government affairs team, partnering with the business to incorporate forward-thinking legal, risk and compliance strategies with the objective to enable the company to compliantly and innovatively serve the needs of its small business customers and their employees.
Before joining Gusto, Alyssa was General Counsel at Sidewalk Labs, where, among other things, she was responsible for developing the legal team and strategy. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Alyssa held senior legal positions with Harman International, Netflix and Autodesk.
Alyssa received her BA in Journalism from Michigan State University and was a Honors College member. She received her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Board member of AppLovin (NASD: APP) and Make-A-Wish Connecticut. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Quello Center, the Advisory Board of Georgetown Law's Initiative on Gender Justice and Opportunity and was a member of the Alumni Board of the Michigan State University Honors College and Aspen Institute's Tech Executive Leadership Institute.
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- Director
- Interim Director
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- Professor John and Eva Cillag Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering Site Director, Center for Identification Technology Research
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- Event & Project Coordinator
Ashley Wilson (pronouns she/her/hers) is the Event and Project Coordinator for the Quello Center and for the Health & Risk Communication Center (HRCC). She came to MSU in 2019 where she joined the Quello Center and Department of Media and Information.
She is the Sub-Committee Chair of the Communications and Marketing team with in the Women's Advisory Committee for Support Staff (WACSS) as well as a Certified Human Resources Specialist (CHRS).
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- Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Research Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Since August 2018, Dr. Bianca (Bibi) Reisdorf is a Quello Center Research Fellow. Bibi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA. Her work focuses on the intersection of inequalities and digital media and the Internet, with a focus on digital inequalities among marginalized populations. In her recent research, Dr. Reisdorf has been focusing on internet access in correctional settings and how returning citizens navigate a technology-dependent world after release. In addition, she is interested in proxy Internet use as well as how Internet users look for and evaluate information from various media sources.
In 2018, she joined The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Prior to joining UNCC, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University. She joined the Quello Center as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in mid-August 2015 and was its Assistant Director from 2016 until 2018. Prior to joining the Quello Center, Bibi worked as a Lecturer and Director of Distance Learning in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester in the UK with a focus in digital media and research methods. In addition, she has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati.
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- Chief Executive Officer for the National Emergency Number Association ( NENA )
Brian Fontes currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the National Emergency Number Association, a position he has held since June 2008. As CEO, he is responsible for all aspects of the Association. His primary objectives are to ensure that Americans have access to reliable 9-1-1 service, 9-1-1 centers have state-of the art technologies and well-trained professionals, and sufficient funding is available so that the 9-1-1 system can best serve those who call upon it as their first voice of hope. Previously, Fontes was Vice President, Federal Relations for Cingular Wireless and served in that capacity after its acquisition by AT&T. Prior to that, Fontes was Senior Vice President for Policy and Administration at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). Before joining CTIA, Fontes served as the Senior Advisor to Commissioner James H. Quello, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and as the FCC's Chief of Staff. Fontes started his professional career as a Professor of Communications at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the Fall of 1995, President Clinton appointed Fontes as head of the United States Delegation to the International Telecommunication Union's World Radio Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, and gave him the rank of Ambassador. Fontes also served as Chairman of the Council of the Communication Regulatory Agency in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Fontes has served on numerous U.S. international delegations. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the NG 9-1-1 Institute and the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management, Policy and Law; until recently served as Co-Chair of the Commerce Department's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee; and currently serves on the FCC's Technical Advisory Committee; the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council; and the Department of State communication policy advisory committee. Fontes received a Ph.D. in Mass Media/Telecommunications from Michigan State University's Department of Telecommunications.
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- Founder and Director of the Digital Equity Research Center at the Metropolitan New York Library Council and Co - Editor - in - Chief of the Journal of Community Informatics
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- Doctoral Student, Research Associate
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- President and Executive Director, New York State Broadcasters Association, Inc
Donovan has occupied the position since June, 2011. He currently serves on the Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) as well as the FCC's Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).
From 2001 to 2011, he served as president of the Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc. (MSTV), the leading engineering trade association for the television industry. During his tenure, MSTV helped guide the industry through the digital transition. It helped design and implemented the DTV channel selection process as well as the development DTV converter box. Working with Sprint, MSTV helped oversee the reallocation of BAS licenses. He led the fight to establish technical rules to avoid interference from unlicensed devices operating in the television band.
Donovan served as the Vice President for Legal and Legislative Affairs for the Association of Local Television Stations (ALTV) from 1990 to 2000. He worked with the NAB and successfully lobbied for a TV stations right to must-carry and retransmission consent. He successfully lobbied for the carry one-carry all rules that govern satellite must-carry. Donovan helped relax the TV duopoly rules for large markets, and was involved in the financial interest and syndication rules.
Joining the Federal Communications Commission in 1983, Donovan occupied a number of important legal positions at the agency. He was directly involved in revising content regulations as well as the ownership rules for radio and television. Donovan served as the chief media advisor for the Honorable James H. Quello for three years.
An attorney, Donovan is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and before several federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. He earned his JD from the Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He received an MA in communications and BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
Donovan and his wife, Jackie, live in the Albany area. He has three adult sons and a little dog.
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- Associate Professor
- Center Research Fellow
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- Paul Garrett Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele - Information
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- Professor in the Department of Geography, the Environment and Spatial Sciences
Elizabeth Mack is a Professor in the Department of Geography, the Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University where she teaches courses in economic geography, economic development and spatial analysis. Dr. Mack's research utilizes mixed methods to understand the evolution of the economy in the face of rapid technological change and climate change.
Dr. Mack earned bachelor's degrees in Spanish and finance from Virginia Tech, followed by graduate work in applied economics at the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in geography from Indiana University. She completed post-doctoral work in spatial analysis at Arizona State University. Elizabeth is an associate editor of Telematics and Informatics and the winner of the Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Award in Regional Science.
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- Director Emeritus WKAR - AM / FM / TV
- Distinguished Senior Academic Specialist
- Distinguished Senior Academic Specialist, Former WDBM - FM Station Manager
After an early career as a professional musician and record producer, Reid began teaching at Michigan State in 1975. Over a 44-year career he taught at both the undergrad and graduate level, in a variety of areas, including all of the audio/radio courses, video production, telecommunication technology and media management. He spent 8 years as the Director of Undergraduate Studies and 25 years as the Internship Coordinator. Further, given his technical background, he was responsible for the design and installation of the extensive audio and video production facilities and broadcast stations in the Communication Arts & Sciences building. Likewise, he put WDBM-FM on-air in 1989 and led the station for 25 years. In 2007, he was inducted into the Michigan Broadcast Hall of Fame. In 2011, he was the youngest person to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award - the highest honor bestowed by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. Reid created and produced the weekly radio address/podcast for Jennifer Granholm during her two-term tenure as Michigan's' Governor. With his broad industry contacts, Reid was instrumental on the team responsible for creating and funding the Quello Center for Management and Law at MSU. Reid assumed the Directorship of PBS and NPR affiliate WKAR-AM/FM/TV in 2011 and led the station through some challenging transitions. In retirement he is a University Distinguished Senior Specialist Emeritus in the Department of Media and Information and Director Emeritus of WKAR. He is the Past President of the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters and a founding member and Past President of the MAB Foundation. He has two endowed student scholarships in his name at both MSU and the MAB. In retirement, in addition to mentoring students and speaking at industry events, Reid spends his time remodeling houses, digitizing and archiving analog audio and video, building custom tube amplifiers and restoring a classic runabout boat from the 1970's.
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- Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College
- Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Grant Blank (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College, both part of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is a sociologist specializing in the social and cultural impact of the Internet, the digital divide, statistical and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He is currently working on analyses of British Internet use based on the 2019 wave of the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS). Author or co-author of about 50 papers and six books, in 2015 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Communication, Information Technology and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
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- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science at Yale University
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- Center Director
- Chairman of Media
- Director, Quello Center
Johannes M. Bauer was appointed as the Quello Chair for Media and Information Policy and the Director of the Quello Center in August 2018. He previously served as the Chairperson of the Department of Media and Information. He was trained as an engineer and economist, holding MA and PhD degrees in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. While at MSU, he also had appointments as a visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2000-2001), the University of Konstanz, Germany (Summer 2010), and most recently the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012). Much of his research centers on policy issues critical to the Quello Center, such as the design of policy and regulation for advanced media and the Internet, cybersecurity, innovation in the digital economy, and measures to increase digital inclusion. He enjoys working with practitioners from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
More information about Professor Bauer is here.
Hampton, K.N., Robertson, C.T., Fernandez, L., Shin, I., & Bauer, J.M. (2021). How variation in internet access, digital skills, and media use are related to rural student outcomes: GPA, SAT, and educational aspirations. Telematics and Informatics, 101666, DOI.
Bauer, Johannes M. (2018), The Internet and income inequality, Telecommunications Policy, 42(4): 333-343, available online.
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- Chairman and CEO, Evans Telecommunications Co. and the John D. Evans Foundation
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, York University
Karole White is Former President/CEO of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Service Corp, Inc and the Executive Director of the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters.
Prior to joining the MAB, Ms. White was the Executive Vice President Director for the Michigan Floral Association, the Executive Director of the MFA Health Insurance Trust, the managing director of MFA Federal Credit Union and President, Executive Director MAB Floral Service Inc. White has been in Association Management in the Greater Lansing area for over 30 years. She has served in executive positions with the Michigan Funeral Directors Association, United States Cheerleaders Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association and was a partner in BKM Advertising and Display Company.
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- Director of Academic Research
- Professor of Media and Information
Keith N. Hampton receives the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association
Keith N. Hampton is a Professor of Media and Information at Michigan State University. In 2018 he assumed the role of Director of Academic Research for the Quello Center. Keith's research is focused on the relationship between new information and communication technologies, social networks, democratic engagement and the urban environment. His recent research has looked at the outcomes of persistent contact and pervasive awareness through social media, including stress, social isolation, exposure to diverse points of view, and willingness to voice opinions. His publications have received a number of awards, such as a 2015 paper award from the American Sociological Association, Section on Communication and Information Technologies.
Hampton received his doctorate and Master of Arts in sociology from the University of Toronto, and his Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the University of Calgary. Before joining the faculty at MSU, he was the Endowed Professor in Communication and Public Policy and Co-Chair of the Social Media & Society Cluster in the Department of Communication in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers. Other previous posts include assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; as well as assistant professor of technology, urban and community sociology, and Endowed Class of '43 Chair in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society, Georgetown University
Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., is the inaugural endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society in Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences. She holds appointments as Professor in the department of Communication, Culture and Technology and Research Professor in the Center for Digital Ethics. Professor DeNardis serves as a member of the steering committee of the Georgetown Initiative on Technology & Society and Director of the interdisciplinary undergraduate program in Technology, Ethics, and Society.
Professor DeNardis is recognized as a leading Internet governance expert in both the United States and the world. Wired UK recently named her one of "32 Global Innovators Who are Building a Better Future" and her book The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (Yale University Press) was recognized as a Financial Times Top Technology Book of 2020. Among her seven books, The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press), is widely considered the definitive source for understanding power struggles over technical infrastructure. Some of her other books include Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability (MIT Press 2011); Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (MIT Press 2009); and Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press 2020).
DeNardis joined Georgetown from American University, where she served as Professor, Faculty Director of the Internet Governance Lab, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and also Interim Dean of the School of Communication for two years. In 2018 she received American University's highest faculty honor, Scholar-Teacher of the Year. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project and the appointed Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. She also served as an appointed member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor DeNardis holds an AB in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College, an MEng from Cornell University, a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Yale Law School.
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- Senior Fellow
- Director of the Technology and International Affairs Program
- Director of the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Institute of Museum and Library Services / PROFILE
Marjory S. Blumenthal is a senior fellow and the director of the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her career has focused on technology trends, impacts, and policy, with an emphasis on information and communications technologies and extending to biotechnology, health, and more. As a scholar, team leader, or convenor of experts, she is a connector of ideas and people.
Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Blumenthal led the experimental Science, Technology, and Policy Program as a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, before which she was the executive director of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House. Her PCAST work addressed such topics as cybersecurity, biosecurity, big data and privacy, and technology for education, health, and cities. Earlier, she built and ran the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-addressing the full range of information technologies and related issues. She then led a sciences initiative as part of a broad strategic portfolio as associate provost at Georgetown University, where she also pursued personal research and taught on cybersecurity, cloud, and Internet policy.
Among her many publications, examples include a pair of RAND reports on the safety of motor vehicles that depend on artificial intelligence, Safe Enough: Approaches to Assessing Acceptable Safety for Automated Vehicles and Measuring Automated Vehicle Safety: Forging a Framework, and another pair of RAND reports on citizen science, Community Citizen Science: From Promise to Action and The Promise of Community Citizen Science. She has written a series of articles on the evolution of the cloud, "Finding Security in the Clouds" in Regulating the Cloud (MIT Press), "Is Security Lost in the Clouds?" in Communications & Strategies (81:1), and "Hide and Seek in the Cloud" in IEEE Security & Privacy (8:2); and a series of articles on the Internet, "The Future of the Internet and Cyberpower" in Cyberpower and National Security (National Defense University and Potomac Books, Inc.), "The End-to-End Argument and Application Design: The Role of Trust" in Federal Communications Law Journal (63:2), "End-to-End and Subsequent Paradigms" in The Law Review of Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law (3:3), and "Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world" in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (1:1). She also explored the intersection of computing and the arts through Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity (National Academies Press), a book that helped to guide an international community seeking to integrate art with science and engineering.
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- Offices PLLC and Trustee MSU College of Law
Richard D. McLellan is an attorney, Chair of the Michigan Law Revision Commission and a Trustee of the MSU College of Law. He is Chairman of the Council for Africa Infrastructure Development. McLellan is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. He is an independent trustee of the JNL Series Trust, a 0 billion variable annuity fund managed by of Jackson National Life Insurance Company, and served as a director of ITC Holdings (NYSE: ITC), the largest independent electric transmission company in the U.S. For many years McLellan was involved in telecommunications policy and regulation. He has served as Chairman of the Michigan Competitive Telecommunications Providers Association and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Michigan Alliance for Competitive Telecommunication. McLellan is a graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Michigan Law School. He has served as an adjunct associate professor in the MSU College of Communication Arts & Sciences.
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- Professor of Communication, University of Zurich
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- Paul Garrett Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele - Information
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- Director of Technology
- Director of Technology Impact Research at Merit Network
Pierrette Renée Dagg is the director of Technology Impact Research for Merit Network at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The aim of her work is to bridge the gap between academic scholarship and practical application to positively impact technology and information equity. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toledo in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education and Education Technology, where she is completing a dissertation on AI in education. She is also a co-instructor at the University of Toledo. Prior to joining Merit, Pierrette held the position of Creative Director at Crain's Detroit Business magazine. She has been the recipient of multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, PRism, the National Academy of Television Officers and Advisors and was also an Emmy nominee. Pierrette graduated from the University of Toledo in Interdisciplinary Studies and earned the Magna Cum Laude distinction. She was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and was named the Distinguished Graduating Scholar by the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning. Pierrette completed her Executive MBA from the University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation in September, 2018. She is a member of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society, the American Educational Research Association, the Michigan Council for Women in Technology, and the Pop Culture/American Culture Association.
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- Associate Provost for Faculty and Academic Staff Development
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- Chairman Emeritus of Wiley
Richard E. Wiley is Chairman Emeritus of Wiley, a Washington, DC law firm with the largest communications practice in the United States. As a former Chairman, Commissioner, and General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (1970-77), he was a leading force in the agency's initial efforts to foster increased competition and lessened regulation in the communications field. He was FCC Chairman when Jim Quello first became a member of the Agency in 1974. Mr. Wiley was awarded an Emmy by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for leading the development of the nation's digital television transmission standard. He also has received numerous industry-related recognitions including the National Association of Broadcaster's Distinguished Service Award, and the Consumer Electronics Association's Gold Medal and Hall of Fame awards. Mr. Wiley graduated with distinction from Northwestern (B.S. and J.D. Degrees) and holds a Master's Degree in Law (LL.M.) from Georgetown. He has received distinguished alumnus awards from each University as well as a Honorary Doctor of Laws from Catholic University.
Rick Coy joined Clark Hill, PLC in 1982 after more than a decade as an Assistant Attorney General of Michigan where he specialized in electric, gas, and communications utility regulation and administrative litigation. Rick serves as Of Counsel in the Firm's Lansing office and contributes to serving the Firm's clients' needs before state government officials and agencies. Rick has more than 43 years' experience specializing in energy, telecommunications, and utility law in Michigan and provides legal counsel and representation to large corporate and institutional utility service users and their statewide associations, as well as new competitors in these restructured industries. In the telecommunications area, Rick has counseled or represented private telecommunications networks, large institutional telecommunications users, competitive telecommunications service providers, and video and broad-band service providers and associations, among others, including a wide array of telecommunications and wireless users in participating in regulatory proceedings, negotiation of contracts with telecommunications providers or carriers, arranging for network management services, and compliance with federal, state and local government regulations. Since 2000 he has been an adjunct professor of telecommunications at Michigan State University, where he serves on the advisory board of the Quello Center.
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- Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning, Meta
Bob Pepper works on Global Connectivity and Technology Policy at Meta, and remains a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. and held faculty positions at the University of Iowa, Indiana University, and University of Pennsylvania, and was a research affiliate at Harvard University. Following this he was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. He was subsequently Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an office now known as OSP. He has also been Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiator of a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. Prior to his appointment as a Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Bob was Vice President for Global Technology Policy at Cisco, having joined the company in 2005. He was responsible for the international aspects of the company's advanced technology policy, working in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy and ICT development. In addition, he serves on a number of boards, including the the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and the advisory board for Columbia University as well as the Quello Center's Advisory Board. He joined Facebook (Meta) in 2016.
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- of Counsel, Clark Hill, PLC
Rick Coy joined Clark Hill, PLC in 1982 after more than a decade as an Assistant Attorney General of Michigan where he specialized in electric, gas, and communications utility regulation and administrative litigation. Rick serves as Of Counsel in the Firm's Lansing office and contributes to serving the Firm's clients' needs before state government officials and agencies. Rick has more than 43 years' experience specializing in energy, telecommunications, and utility law in Michigan and provides legal counsel and representation to large corporate and institutional utility service users and their statewide associations, as well as new competitors in these restructured industries. In the telecommunications area, Rick has counseled or represented private telecommunications networks, large institutional telecommunications users, competitive telecommunications service providers, and video and broad-band service providers and associations, among others, including a wide array of telecommunications and wireless users in participating in regulatory proceedings, negotiation of contracts with telecommunications providers or carriers, arranging for network management services, and compliance with federal, state and local government regulations. Since 2000 he has been an adjunct professor of telecommunications at Michigan State University, where he serves on the advisory board of the Quello Center.
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- General Manager of WKAR Public Media
Shawn Turner is the General Manager of WKAR Public Media. He is also a professor of strategic communication at Michigan State University. Prior to his current position, Shawn served in senior positions in government, non-profit, and academic organizations. His previous positions in government include Deputy White House Press Secretary for National Security, Director of Communication for National Intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs for the National Security Council (NSC). As a senior intelligence officer, Shawn was responsible for coordinating all internal and external communication on behalf of the 17 agencies and components that make up the U.S. intelligence community. At the White House and the NSC, Shawn was a principal spokesperson for U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and helped develop the U.S. government's approach to communicating intelligence reform in 2014.
Shawn's previous non-governmental experience includes serving as Chair of the Information Operations program at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security, as an adjunct professor in the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as the Director of Communication at the Center for a New American Security.
Shawn has published articles in USA Today, Newsweek, Spectra, and on CNN.com. He has also authored book chapters on risk communication for national defense and information-processing and cognitive theories. He is a member of the executive board of advisors for the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a former Distinguished Terker Fellow in George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. He is also a former member of the board of advisors for the National Security Agency (NSA).
Other recognitions throughout Shawn's career include being named one of Washington DC's top decision makers by the National Journal in 2013, being awarded the Intelligence Community Leadership Award in 2015, and in 2016, he was awarded the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award for outstanding career accomplishments and exemplary service to the nation.
Prior to his civilian career, Shawn served 21 years in the United States Marine Corps. He received his B.A. degree in communication studies from Texas State University and an M.A. degree in communication from George Mason University.
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- Associate Vice President for Research Development, Clemson University
Dr. Cotten joined Clemson in August 2020 to lead the university's Office of Research Development, foster large multidisciplinary research projects, advance faculty development efforts, and help generate new streams of research support. She is also provost's distinguished professor and has joint faculty appointments in the sociology, anthropology and criminal justice department and the department of communication. Before joining Clemson, Dr. Cotten was Michigan State University Foundation professor and associate chair for research in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State.
Dr. Cotten earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from Wake Forest University, followed by graduate work, including a PhD in sociology, at North Carolina State University, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Boston University School of Public Health in Boston and the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a past chair of the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA) and the 2013 recipient of the Public Sociology Award from the CITASA section of the American Sociological Association.
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- Assistant Professor, Media Information
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- and Former Director of the Quello Center
- Research Fellow at the Quello Center. Professor
Steven S. Wildman is a Research Fellow at the Quello Center. Professor Wildman was the Founding Director of the Quello Center. During his penultimate year as director of the Center, he served a one year stint as Chief Economist to the FCC, reflecting the focus of his economics research on telecommunication industries and services. Steve was appointed as the James H. Quello Professor of Telecommunication Studies and the first Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law at Michigan State University in 1999. Prior to joining Michigan State in Fall 1999, Dr. Wildman was Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Program in Telecommunications Science, Management & Policy at Northwestern University. Earlier positions include Senior Economist with Economists Incorporated and Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. Dr. Wildman holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Wabash College. Steve stepped down as Director in 2014 to focus on his research and support the transition to a new director. He remains a Research Fellow in the Center, as Professor and J.H. Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies Emeritus at MSU, and a member of our Advisory Board, as well as serving as an adjunct faculty member in the Technology, CyberSecurity, and Policy Program and as an affiliate of the Silicon Flatirons Center.
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- Associate Professor in the Department of Communication
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- Interim Dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU
Teresa Mastin, PhD (1998), Mass Media-Michigan State University, is currently serving as the Interim Dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences. Prior to this role she served as the 10th chairperson for the Department of Advertising + Public Relations. Mastin's primary research interests include sustained dialogue as a tool for community action, media advocacy as a public relations tool, media coverage of health issues related to women and vulnerable populations, especially in regard to individuals residing in struggling urban communities and low-income countries.
Mastin introduced sustained dialogue to Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine students, to the Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences community, and to MSU students who participated in the inaugural Visual Storytelling in Kenya Study Abroad, May 2022. She was a Big Ten Academic Alliance Leadership Fellow, 2021-22 Cohort, and is the Vice President for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She served as a Fulbright specialist in Rwanda and Kenya and introduced media advocacy to non-governmental organizations operating in Rwanda, Kenya, and Vietnam for a purpose of helping them promote the core components of their mission and vision. She is an editorial board member for Health Communication and The Howard Journal of Communications, and an elected member of IPR ELEVATE.
Mastin's research has been published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Black Studies; College Teaching; Communication Research Reports; Health Care for Women International; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; the Journal of Transcultural Nursing; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; Newspaper Journal; PRism; Public Relations Journal; Public Relations Review.
She serves as an AEJMC board member and as an advisory board member for SQ Scholars. Mastin has also served on the following boards: Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR); Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4); HerStory Centre, working together for self-reliance (Nairobi, Kenya).
While the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2015 - 2018), she completed a Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and was the School's Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) certified administrator. Mastin frequently presented diversity and inclusion and cultural competency talks, workshops, and grand rounds, LGBTQ safe space trainings, and taught sustained and intergroup dialogue courses that addressed hot topic issues, e.g., racial climate/privilege; sexual misconduct/harassment in the medical profession.
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- Professor, School of Criminal Justice
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- Consultant for Digital Development at the Inter - American Development Bank
- Digital Development, Inter - American Development Bank
Tiago S. Prado is a consultant for Digital Development at the Inter-American Development Bank. He earned his Ph.D. in Information and Media, with a focus on economics, in 2023. He joined the research team at the Quello Center in August 2019. While in the Ph.D. program, he was on leave from the Brazilian telecommunications regulatory authority (Anatel). Tiago holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Economic Development, an MBA with an emphasis in Project Management, and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Networks Engineering.
His current research interests relate to the economic and policy implications of digital platforms. More specifically, he researches the short and long-run economic impacts of digital platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon on market structures and performance, and their implications for competition policy and regulation. Also, he is interested in understanding how and to what extent such processes affect social welfare and how policy regimes can harness or mitigate these impacts.
With 10 years of experience as a policy and regulatory specialist, Tiago has accumulated an extensive track record of working with government actors in the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital policies. He has spoken and negotiated on behalf of Brazil in more than 20 multilateral meetings at the Organization of American States (OAS) and at the United Nation's International Telecommunications Union (ITU). As a result of such work, in 2016 Tiago was elected by the ITU member states to represent Latin-American countries in its policy-related study group for Quality of Service and Quality of Experience.
Job Titles:
- Principal of His Firm, Breakthrough Public Media Consulting
- Principal, Breakthrough Public Media Consulting
Vincent Curren joined the Quello Advisory Board in 2017. He is a principal of Breakthrough Public Media Consulting, Inc.. Given his experience in public broadcasting and focus on the future of broadcasting standards and their implications for the industry, his appointment helps reinforce the Center's broadcast legacy tied to James H. Quello. He has been focused on the new IP-based standard created by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), called ATSC 3.0. As he argues, this new standard is likely to enable real synergies between the Internet and broadcasting, and much much more, even helping to usher in the next generation of television.
As principal of his firm, Breakthrough Public Media Consulting, Vinnie is helping public media companies navigate today's dynamic and competitive media world. More concretely, he is working with the Public Media Company to help public television stations leverage the power of ATSC 3.0, the next generation, broadcast television standard.
Before leaving to start his own firm, Vinnie served as Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a position that he held for nearly a decade. While at CPB, Vincent Curren had overall responsibility for managing station policy, grant-making and station support activities, ensuring that all Americans receive robust public media services for free and commercial-free. Prior to being named Chief Operating Officer, Vinnie was the Senior Vice President for Radio at CPB.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Visiting Scholar, Quello Center
Volker Stocker is the head of the multidisciplinary research group "Work and Cooperation in the Sharing Economy" at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (The German Internet-Institute), a postdoctoral researcher with the Internet Network Architecture (INET) Group at TU Berlin, and an associated researcher with the Internet Architecture Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken. He has been a member of the Digitalizing Infrastructure Expert (DIGEX) Group at the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute) and plays a leading role in the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Europe. Volker obtained his doctoral degree in economics with the highest distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Freiburg. As a doctoral researcher, he was a visiting TU Berlin, Northumbria University in Newcastle, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an economist with broad experience in interdisciplinary research at the confluence of technology, economics/management, and policy. His research interests include the economics, evolution, and regulation of digital infrastructures and the Internet ecosystem, Internet policy, and the platform economy.
Visiting Scholar, Quello Center; Head of Research Group, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (The German Internet Institute); Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Job Titles:
- Doctoral Student, Research Assistant / PROFILE
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, Former Quello Center Director
- Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute
William H. Dutton is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre, University of Oxford. He is also a Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Bill was founding director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and a Fellow of Balliol College, until leaving Oxford in 2014 to become the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU, where he served as Director of the Quello Center, until returning to Oxford in 2018. Bill remains an Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), where he was a Fulbright Scholar to Britain, served as national director during the last years (1993-95) of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT), elected President of the USC's Faculty Senate, and taught until 2002, when he became the first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford. He has recently edited the Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (OUP 2013), four volumes on Politics and the Internet (Routledge 2014), and the second edition of a reader entitled Society and the Internet, with Mark Graham (OUP 2019). His book entitled Society on the Line (OUP 1999) has been influential in social sciences of the Internet. He continues development of his concept of the Fifth Estate of the Internet realm.