The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
Background
Mark Lloyd is a civil rights advocate, lawyer and journalist. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan project he founded to bring civil rights principles and advocacy to the communications policy debate. Lloyd graduated from the University of Michigan with a double major in journalism and political science. He earned his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Interests
A distinguished analyst and activist, Lloyd has a broad background in universities, think tanks, government and media-related non-profits. He has served as a consultant to the Clinton White House, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. Before becoming a communications lawyer, Lloyd was an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, working for public and commercial radio and television, including work at NBC and CNN. His research interests include civil rights and communications policy.
News Items
MLK Visiting Professor, Scholar named; 4 continue as MLK profs
Koffi Maglo and Patricia Powell join the cohort of MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars.
4 new MLK Visiting Professors named
The MLK Visiting Professors include two mathematicians, a material scientist and an urbanologist.
Sample Work
Publication
Whose Voices Count, a Proposal to Strengthen the Communications Capability of Community Groups
“Whose Voices Count, a Proposal to Strengthen the Communications Capability of Community Groups,” A Digital Gift to the Nation, Lawrence Grossman and Newt Minnow, Editors (Digital Promise Project-Century Foundation Press, Washington, DC, 2001).
Publication
The Digital Divide and Equal Access to Justice
“The Digital Divide and Equal Access to Justice,” Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Univ. of California), Vol. 24, No. 4, Summer 2002.
Publication
The Value of the Tax Certificate
“The Value of the Tax Certificate” (w/ Kofi Ofori), Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington, Federal Communications Bar Association, May 1999.