Susan N. Herman is president of the American Civil Liberties Union, which works to promote First Amendment freedoms and prevent censorship.

Gene Policinski is senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The center offers comprehensive research of key First Amendment issues and topics.

Barbara Weinstein is director of the Commission on Social Action of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington, D.C. One of the organization’s missions is to support First Amendment rights.

From 1978 to 2012, Andrew Jay Schwartzman was senior vice president and policy director of the Media Access Project, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm that represented listeners’ and speakers’ interests before the FCC.  He is an attorney and consultant who specializes in media and telecommunications policy. He is now an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. […]

James Steyer is the founder of Common Sense Media, a politically neutral San Francisco-based group that offers information to help parents make good choices for their families. Media contacts are Amber Whiteside and Crista Sumanik.

Jordan J. Ballor is a research fellow and executive editor at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich., which promotes “a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.”

Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, which works to foster “a culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.” He also leads the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which tracks religious persecution around the world.

The American Family Association, based in Mississippi, promotes conservative Christian values, including traditional marriage. It fights against pornography. Media contact is Cindy Roberts.

Parents Television Council, a Los Angeles-based advocacy group, has a mission to bring more family oriented programming to television.