Heather Franklin

Heather leads campaign design, development and execution across all areas of our federal policy work, which includes broadband access and affordability, Net Neutrality, network resilience, privacy and more. 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.