Andrew Jay Schwartzman

Andrew Jay Schwartzman is the president and CEO of Media Access Project (MAP). He has directed the organization since June 1978. MAP is a nonprofit public interest telecommunications law firm which represents the public in promoting the First Amendment rights to speak and to hear. It has been the chief legal strategist in efforts to oppose major media mergers and preserve policies promoting media diversity. Schwartzman is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences. He was the Distinguished Lecturer in Residence at the Institute's summer 2004 program at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. Schwartzman is a member of the Federal Communications Commission's Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. He is the 1994 recipient of the United Church of Christ Office of Communication's Everett C. Parker Award and the 2004 recipient of the Media Matters Life Achievement Award. The Scientific American honored Schwartzman as one of the nation's 50 leaders in technology for 2004. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Schwartzman was staff counsel to the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ from 1971-1974.