The Everett C. Parker Lecturers

1983—Daniel L. Ritchie, Chairman and CEO, Westinghouse Broadcast and Cable, Inc.
1984—David Burnham, Investigative Report, New York Times
1985—Henry M. Rivera, FCC Commissioner
1986—Rep. Al Swift (D-Wash.)
1987—William Baker, President, WNET-TV
1988—Mary Alice Williams, Anchor, CNN NY Bureau, and Vice President, CNN
1989—Tony Schwartz, President, New Sound, Inc.
1990—The Rev. Calvin O. Butts, Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC; and Sheila Stainback, Anchor, WPIX-TV
1991—Ervin S. Duggan, FCC Commissioner
1992—Panel: The Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman, Comptroller, City of New York; Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.); Barbara Reynolds, Columnist, USA Today; Lynn Sherr, ABC-TV
1993—William V. Catucci, Vice President for Government Affairs, AT&T; and Eli Noam, Director, Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University Business School
1994—Reed Hundt, FCC Chairman
1995—The Rev. Everett C. Parker, Founder, OC, Inc.
1996—Lawrence K. Grossman, President, PBS Horizons Cable Network
1997—Robert Lissit, Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
1998—Paula Madison, Vice President and News Director, WNBC-TV
1999—Mike McCurry, Former White House Press Secretary
2000—Steven Brill, Founder, Brill’s Content
2001—Scott Simon, Host, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR
2002—Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner
2003—Jay Harris, Annenberg Chair and Director, Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, USC; former chair and publisher, San Jose Mercury News
2004—Jeffrey Birnbaum, Columnist/Feature Writer, Washington Post; and Commentator/Analyst, Fox News Channel
2005—Juan Gonzalez, Columnist, New York Daily News; Co-host, Democracy Now!
2006—Amy Goodman, Host, Principal Host, Democracy Now!
2007—Rev. Robert Chase, Founding Director, Intersections
2008—Johnathan Rodgers, CEO & President, TV One
2009—Rev. Michael Kinnamon, General Secretary, National Council of Churches in the U.S.A.
2010—Mignon Clyburn, FCC Commissioner
2011—Steven Waldman, co-founder, Beliefnet.com, and principal author, FCC’s Future of the Media Report
2012—Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
2013—Hilary O. Shelton, Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy, NAACP
2014—Chairman Tom Wheeler, Federal Communications Commission
2015—Dr. danah boyd, founder, Data & Society Research Institute
2016—Rev. Traci Blackmon, acting executive minister of the United Church of Christ’s Justice and Witness Ministries
2017—Rinku Sen, outgoing president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation
2018—Helen Brunner, director, Global Fund and founding director of the Media Democracy Fund
2019—Rev. Julian De Shazier, senior pastor of University Church in Chicago
2020—Valarie Kaur, founder, Revolutionary Love Project and author, See No Stranger
2021—Eric K. Ward, executive director, Western States Center
2022—Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
2023—Jessica Rosenworcel, Chair, Federal Communications Commission
2024—Paul Farhi, former Washington Post media reporter

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The Everett C. Parker Lecture has been a tradition in media justice for over 30 years.
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