Jennifer LaFleur Jennifer LaFleur teaches at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism where she also works with the school’s Investigative Reporting Program. LaFleur was formerly a senior editor at the Center for Public Integrity, an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization focused on investigating the root causes of inequality. She joined CPI from the Investigative […]| Sunshine Week
Rick Blum Rick Blum is the founder and CEO of Sixteenth Street Consulting LLC, which helps advocacy organizations expand and diversify support, create and sustain coalitions, and build winning strategies. Rick has organized numerous coalitions and initiatives to protect press freedom and promote open government. For over a decade, Rick coordinated News Media for Open […]| Sunshine Week
Debra Gersh Hernandez Debra Gersh Hernandez is director of communications for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and is a coordinator of the national Sunshine Week open government initiative, in partnership with the American Society of News Editors. Previously, she was the first full-time Sunshine Week coordinator for ASNE. She has served in […]| Sunshine Week
Jameel Jaffer Jameel Jaffer is the inaugural director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which was established by Columbia University and the Knight Foundation to promote the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age. Since its inception in 2016, the Institute has taken on major litigation and research projects relating […]| Sunshine Week
Royce Lamberth Royce C. Lamberth was appointed United States District Judge for the District of Columbia on Nov. 16, 1987. He assumed senior status in 2013. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Lamberth served as chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for nearly […]| Sunshine Week
Jason Leopold Jason Leopold is a senior investigative reporter on the Bloomberg News investigations team. Leopold is a recipient of the 2023 Gerald Loeb award for investigative reporting, a 2022 George Polk award for health reporting and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. In 2015, Leopold was nominated […]| Sunshine Week
Miriam Nisbet Miriam Nisbet was the founding director of the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Created in 2007, OGIS is the federal FOIA ombudsman office, charged with providing mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and federal agencies and with improving FOIA administration. In addition to establishing […]| Sunshine Week
Seth Rosenfeld Seth Rosenfeld is an independent investigative journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power. He began the research that would lead to Subversives in 1981, as a journalism student at UC Berkeley writing for the campus newspaper. The work would […]| Sunshine Week
Pete Weitzel Pete Weitzel served as managing editor of the Miami Herald, where he worked as a reporter and editor for nearly 40 years. When he was president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors in 1984, he established the Florida First Amendment Foundation to serve as a government transparency watchdog. He was its president […]| Sunshine Week
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