Clients & Success Stories
Success Stories
Faith-Based Grassroots Education and Action
Cheryl’s client, the United Church of Christ’s media justice and communications rights ministry, OC Inc., started work in coalition with other groups to end predatory prison phone rates. Cheryl was able to combine her policy skills with grassroots education tools to bring the issue home to people in the pews and persuading the FCC to… Read More
Progressive States Network
The Progressive States Network needed assistance during a staff transition in order to keep its program on community broadband for state legislators vital. Cheryl stepped in and seamlessly provided materials and a briefing for the annual legislative policy retreat in a few weeks’ time. Cheryl took over the @BroadbandPSN twitter feed, providing a constant flow… Read More
Native Public Media
Native Public Media wanted to obtain a regulatory change that would facilitate radio service to tribal lands. NPM needed to build a record to assess the impact of various regulatory changes and eventually support a proposal to the Federal Communications Commission. Cheryl undertook a confidential academic-quality research report identifying the impact, on tribal applicants for… Read More
Local Community Radio Act
Problem: Local Community Radio Act had been pending for almost 10 years. Advocates for the LCRA were running out of time–the Federal Communications Commission was going to release spectrum that would be used for local community radio. Cheryl successfully helped to bring the Local Community Radio Act across the goal line after 10 years of… Read More
Orient a New CEO to the Policy Space
In early 2010, a membership organization representing community radio stations, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), was undergoing a leadership change. The new President & CEO knew a lot about making community radio, but needed to quickly get up to speed on the key policy issues and policymakers. Cheryl assisted in the transition between… Read More
Clients
- Cheryl currently serves as Policy Advisor of the United Church of Christ’s Office of Communication, Inc., UCC’s historic media justice advocacy arm.
- Cheryl assists the Leadership Conference Education Fund with is media and telecommunications advocacy, helping them to bring together media reform and civil rights advocates. She helped craft this detailed letter and media statements to improve the FCC’s Lifeline subsidy for low-income people.
- Cheryl is assisting the Progressive States Network with their community broadband advocacy and tracking in state legislatures nationwide. See one example of Cheryl’s dispatch articles for PSN.
- Cheryl assisted Media Access Project with several legal filings on behalf of their client, the Media Action Grassroots Network.
- Cheryl has developed community outreach and drafted pleadings for Public Knowledge.
- Cheryl conducted a detailed legal and data-driven analysis of native radio station applications for Native Public Media.
- Cheryl was an important member of the legal team which successfully overturned the FCC’s decision allowing further media consolidation in Prometheus v. FCC.
- Cheryl has advised the National Federation of Community Broadcasters on its Washington DC outreach and assists with its media policy strategy.
- Cheryl assisted the Future of Music Coalition with comments to the FCC.
- While at the National League of Cities, Cheryl developed a legislative action team and negotiated legislative language in Congress affecting cities’ power to regulate cable television.
- Cheryl is part of the team of public interest advocates who successfully lobbied Congress to pass the Local Community Radio Act of 2010, expanding the availability of local community radio to the top 40 radio markets nationwide. Cheryl currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Prometheus Radio Project.
- Cheryl is currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Communications Culture and Technology Program. Cheryl’s Georgetown Bio.