Board/Advisors

Board of Directors

Joan Bertin: executive director, National Coalition Against Censorship (New York, NY)
Judy Blume: author (New York, NY)
Victor Bolden: attorney, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (New Haven, CT)
Susan Clare: Financial Consultant (Wellesley, MA)
Chris Finan: president, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (New York, NY)
Eric M. Freedman: Professor of Law, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: Author
Phil Harvey: Chief Executive Officer, DKT International (Washington, DC)
Marjorie Heins: director, Free Expression Policy Project; attorney and author (New York, NY)
Damien Joyner: Chicago Communities in Schools (Chicago, IL)
George Kannar: Professor of Law, SUNY Buffalo Faculty of Law (Buffalo, NY)
Gail Markels: executive director, American Legal Finance Association (New York, NY)
Robert M. O'Neil: director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression; Professor of Law, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Larry Siems: director, Freedom to Write & Int'l Programs, PEN American Center (New York, NY)
Emily Whitfield: founder and president, Emily Whitfield Communications (New York, NY)

NCAC's Council of Advisors

Amy Adler, professor, NYU Law School
Helene Atwan, director, Beacon Press (Boston, MA)
Julian Bond, chairman of the board, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
John Harris Burt, Episcopal Bishop of Ohio Emeritus
James Cromwell, actor
Norman Dorsen, professor of law, New York University Law School
Gail Edwin
Frances FitzGerald, journalist, historian
Carl E. Flemister, consultant, Pastorial Care, HIP of New York; retired Regional/Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York
Danny Goldberg, president, Gold Village Entertainment, vice chairman, Air America Radio
Victor Gotbaum, director, Center for Social Research, City University of New York
Franklyn S. Haiman, professor emeritus of communication studies, Northwestern University
David Henry Hwang, playwright
Rhoda H. Karpatkin, executive director, Consumers Union
Tony Kushner, playwright
Sylvia A. Law, professor of law, New York University
S Jay Levy, partner, Levy Economic Forecasts
Pamela A. Mann, attorney
Jay Mazur, president emeritus, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)
Joyce D. Miller, special assistant to the Secretary of Labor
Victor Navasky, chairman and publisher, The Nation
Aryeh Neier, president, Open Society Institute
Pat Scales
Stanley K. Sheinbaum, publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly
Nadine Strossen, professor of law, New York Law School and former president, ACLU
Cleo Wilson, executive director, Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art; former executive director, Playboy Foundation
Susan N. Wilson, sexuality educator, former executive director, Network for Family Life Education, Rutgers University

Organizational affiliations for identification only.