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Greg Lukianoff
President
Greg Lukianoff is the President of FIRE and has been with FIRE since 2001, when he was hired to be the organization’s first director of legal and public advocacy. Greg is a graduate of American University and of Stanford Law School, where he focused on First Amendment and constitutional law. Greg has published articles in The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fraternal Law, Inside Higher Ed, The Boston Globe, the New York Post, and numerous other publications. He is a blogger for the Huffington Post and served as a regular columnist for the Daily Journal of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Greg is a frequent guest on local and national syndicated radio programs, has represented FIRE on national television shows—including The O'Reilly Factor, Glenn Beck, The Abrams Report, Hannity and Colmes, and Buchanan and Press—and has testified before the U.S. Senate about free speech issues on America’s campuses.
Before joining FIRE, Greg practiced law in Northern California, interned at the ACLU of Northern California and the Organization for Aid to Refugees in Prague, Czech Republic, and was the development manager of the EnvironMentors Project in Washington, D.C. Greg, along with Harvey A. Silverglate and David French, is a co-author of FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Greg is also a proud member of the board of directors of Philadelphia’s Theater Exile.
Robert Shibley
Vice President
Robert L. Shibley, FIRE's Vice President, is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and a graduate of Duke University and Duke University School of Law. Robert's undergraduate experience serving as the managing editor of the Duke Review newspaper, which frequently decried (and faced) administrative censorship and bias, led him to a career defending the rights of college and university students and faculty members. Since starting at FIRE in 2003, Robert has aided students and faculty members at dozens of colleges and universities. As Vice President, along with traveling to various campuses to speak about First Amendment issues, Robert has represented FIRE publicly in both national and international radio interviews and published editorials in the New York Post, Providence Journal, Daily Oklahoman, and other newspapers. He is also a member of the board of Valley Christian School in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
Samantha Harris
Director of Legal and Public Advocacy
Samantha K. Harris, a Philadelphia native, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and from Princeton University, where she earned an A.B. magna cum laude in politics. As an undergraduate, Samantha completed a senior thesis that analyzed the constitutional implications of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s quality-of-life initiative in New York City. During law school, she served on the editorial board of the Journal of Constitutional Law. Before joining FIRE, Samantha clerked for the late Honorable Jay C. Waldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and most recently was an associate at the law firm of Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia.
William Creeley
Senior Program Officer
William Creeley, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2003, where he earned a B.A. magna cum laude in political science and critical theory. He is also a 2006 graduate of the New York University School of Law. As an undergraduate, William was a student senator and the graduation speaker for both the Gallatin School graduation ceremony and the All-University Commencement. During law school, he served as an executive editor for the New York University Law Review. A former FIRE legal intern (2004), William also worked as a summer clerk for Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps in 2005.
Emily Guidry
Media Director
A native of Houma, Louisiana, Emily C. Guidry graduated from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law in May 2005 and earned an M.A. summa cum laude in Communications from Loyola in December 2006. For her master’s thesis, Emily examined the state of student press law at public universities in light of the controversial 2005 Hosty v. Carter decision. As an undergraduate at Nicholls State University, Emily received two B.A.s magna cum laude in Mass Communication and English. She also served as managing editor and editor of The Nicholls Worth, the university’s independent student newspaper, worked for the campus television news show, and played on Nicholls’ women’s tennis team.
Adam Kissel
Director, Individual Rights Defense Program
Adam Kissel graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Chicago, where he served as Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees and earned an A.M. from the Committee on Social Thought. His academic interests include the history and theory of liberal education, the history and theory of rhetoric, and rhetoric’s relationship with philosophy. He also has served as a professional editor for Nobel laureate James Heckman and for faculty in a variety of disciplines. Before joining FIRE, Adam was a director of the Lehrman American Studies Center and the Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles. With Sharon Browne he wrote a Faculty Rights Handbook in 2007.
Luke Sheahan
Director, Campus Freedom Network
Luke C. Sheahan of Lebanon, Oregon, graduated cum laude from the Honors College at Oregon State University, where he majored in political science with a minor in business administration. For three years he served as executive editor and publisher of The Liberty, a commentary paper at Oregon State, where he opposed the administration's speech codes and the bias within student government. During his time at Oregon State, Luke held executive positions and chairmanships in a number of student organizations as well as memberships in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key Honor Society, and Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Society. He was also a 2005–2006 recipient of the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship. Luke has spoken to various community groups on a number of topics and was a student panelist at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2006. Luke was a FIRE summer intern in 2005.