Board of Special Advisors
Meet Our Board of Special Advisors
Our Board of Special Advisors are leaders and experts in areas of importance to FAC, including First Amendment law, journalism, freedom of information, philanthropy, and the media industry. They are listed below in alphabetical order.
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Floyd Abrams
Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel
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Anne Avis
Board Member of Global Press, KQED and Internews
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Lowell Bergman
Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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Tom Blanton
Director, National Security Archive at George Washington University
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Bruce B. Brugmann​
Editor and Publisher, San Francisco Bay Guardian (retired)
FAC Board of Directors, 1988-2024
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Simone Coxe
Philanthropist and Investor, Co-Founder and Chairman of CalMatters
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Harold W. Fuson Jr.
Attorney, Executive Vice President, The Copley Press, Inc. (retired)
FAC Board of Directors, 2009-2023
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Rebecca MacKinnon
Vice President for Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
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Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist and the Craig Newmark Philanthropic Foundation
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Dana Priest
Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
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Gary Pruitt
President and CEO, Associated Press (retired)
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Dick Rogers
Reader Representative, San Francisco Chronicle (retired)
FAC Board of directors, 1997-2023