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FIRE Speakers Bureau

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Having a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression staffer come to your event to speak is an excellent opportunity to bring positive change to the state of freedom of speech and expression in America. 

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John Coleman

Featured Speaker

In an era of emerging technologies, questions about free speech can become difficult to answer. Meet our featured speaker, John Coleman, who is ready to help your membership, staff, team, or community understand their 1st Amendment rights in the digital age. John does speaking engagements about:

  • The First Amendment in the Age of AI
  • When AI Speaks: Should AI Have Speech Rights?
  • Government Pressure on AI Companies and the First Amendment
  • AI Moderation and Constitutional Limits
  • Deepfakes, Misinformation, and the Limits of Regulation
  • Compelled Speech and Generative AI
  • Identity Verification, Age Assurance, and Civil Liberties

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Executive Team

FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty.

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Campus Rights Advocacy

Our Campus Rights Advocacy team provides free assistance to students and faculty facing civil liberties violations on America’s college and university campuses. 

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Litigation

FIRE's litigation team seeks to protect Americans’ free speech rights by defending them in the courts and creating lasting legal precedents. Our lawyers also work to position FIRE as a thought leader in First Amendment jurisprudence by submitting amicus briefs in strategically chosen cases and publishing legal scholarship.

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Communications

FIRE's vision is an America in which people overwhelmingly believe in the right of others to freely express views different from their own, and expect their laws and educational institutions to reflect and teach this belief.

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Legislative Policy Reform

FIRE works closely with lawmakers across the country and political spectrum to protect civil liberties.

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College Policy Reform

FIRE’s college policy reform team works to proactively and systematically challenge campus policies that violate college students’ and faculty members’ free speech rights. 

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Research

Data fuels FIRE’s policy awareness and college reform advocacy efforts, giving us the ability to directly work with administrators to offer analysis and advice.

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