Heather leads the organization’s telecommunications campaigns, which include broadband access and affordability, Net Neutrality, network resiliency and prison-phone justice. She organizes a nationwide coalition of advocates fighting to protect the free and open internet and helps lead the Utility Justice Coalition, a network of nearly 1,000 public-interest groups working on the federal, state and local levels to ensure that people can access broadband, power and clean water. The coalition also works to ensure that those systems are equitable, just and can withstand the climate-change emergency.
Heather earned her B.A. in social thought and political economy and her master’s in public policy from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Expert Analysis
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers has signed on to a bill that would extend funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, but more support is needed.
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Nearly 23-million households will lose access to high-speed internet unless Congress invests more money in the Affordable Connectivity Program.
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A program designed to connect low-income households to high-speed internet will run out of money if Congress fails to act.
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Cruz and his cronies were up to their old shenanigans during a Senate hearing on the nomination of Anna Gomez to fill the fifth and final seat at the agency.
News
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Without an injection of new funding to the ACP, the program that has helped more than 23 million households get and stay online will expire in May.
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If Congress doesn’t act, in a matter of days the internet bills for one out of every six homes in the country will go up.
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Without the additional money the ACP Extension Act would provide, 23 million low-income households could face higher internet bills.
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This essential broadband subsidy will end in weeks without renewed resources, leaving tens of millions of households paying more to access the internet.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press Action urges a Massachusetts legislative committee to include the perspectives of media innovators and the public in proposed journalism commission.
Stories
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The Everett C. Parker Award recognizes an individual whose work embodies the principles and values of the public interest in telecommunications and the media.
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Team Internet is a decentralized grassroots campaign featuring nearly half a million activists.
