Friday, January 17, 2014

Killing Net Neutrality, Blacking Out Communities of Color

Net Neutrality Ruling Will Disempower Communities of Color

by TRNN

Jessica Gonzalez: As US Court of Appeals rules against net neutrality, internet service providers will restrict access for communities of color.

Jessica Gonzalez leads the National Hispanic Media Coalition's legal and policy work and executes NHMC’s priorities before the federal agencies and in Congress. She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Additionally, she played an instrumental role in drafting the historic Memorandum of Understanding between Comcast Corporation and leading national Latino leadership organizations. Before joining NHMC, Jessica was a staff attorney and clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s renowned Institute for Public Representation (IPR), where she represented NHMC and other consumer, civil rights and public interest organizations before the FCC, the NTIA and in the Courts of Appeal. Prior to law school she was a public high school teacher in Los Angeles, Calif.

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