Board Chair Kim Gandy is vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation. She previously served as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and chair of the NOW Foundation and political action committees. Gandy also served as NOW's principal spokeswoman and is a well-known media commentator on women's rights. After leaving NOW, Gandy accepted a resident fellowship at Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. She was one of the lead organizers of the 2004 March for Women's Lives and a key organizer of the 1989 and 1992 marches. Gandy’s expertise in mass actions ensured that 1.2 million activists made the 2004 march for women's reproductive freedom the largest and most diverse grassroots mobilization in our nation's history.

President and CEO Craig Aaron took the leadership of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund in April 2011. Craig joined Free Press in 2004 and previously served as managing director, senior program director and communications director. He works in the Washington office and speaks across the country on media, Internet and journalism issues. Craig is a frequent guest on talk radio and is quoted often in the national press. His commentaries also appear regularly in the Guardian and the Huffington Post. Before joining Free Press, he was an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress Watch and the managing editor of In These Times magazine. He is the editor of two books, Appeal to Reason: The First 25 Years of In These Times and Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.

Marcy Carsey is a founder with partner Tom Werner of the Carsey Werner Company, the television production company responsible for The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Third Rock from the Sun and That 70's Show. Marcy and Tom joined forces in 1998 with the former head of Nickelodeon, Geraldine Laybourne, and Oprah Winfrey to create Oxygen, a multimedia company for women that fused a new cable channel with an Internet base.

Born in Weymouth, Mass., Marcy graduated from the University of New Hampshire and began her show business career as an NBC tour guide. She worked as a production assistant on The Tonight Show and as a story editor for Tomorrow Entertainment before joining ABC in 1974. She rose to vice president for comedy development and in 1979 was named senior vice president of Primetime Series. She left ABC in 1980 to form her own production company, which became the Carsey Werner Company in 1981.

The Carsey Werner producing team was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as well as Broadcasting and Cable Magazine's Hall of Fame. The team has received numerous awards including the Emmy, Humanitas Prize, Peabody, People’s Choice, Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award.

Olga M. Davidson is visiting associate professor in the Middle Eastern Studies program at Wellesley College, where her teaching focuses on Persian and Arabic languages and literature. Prior to joining Wellesley, she served as chair of the concentration in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and also taught in the women's studies program. She is the author of Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings and Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetry — both translated into Persian — and has published numerous academic articles. Besides her academic duties, she serves as chair of the board at the Ilex Foundation.

Maxie C. Jackson III serves as president and chief executive officer for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. He previously served as senior director for program development at New York Public Radio (WNYC), where he was involved in strategic planning for national and local programming, outreach and audience development efforts and new media and marketing initiatives. He helped launch The Takeaway and developed community-engagement strategies and a new evening program for WNYC.

During his public radio career, Maxie has served on national (CPB, PRX, NPR, BBC and PRI) committees affecting public radio funding, technology, recruitment and programming. He is currently a member of the Development Exchange, Inc. board of directors, the Association of Independents in Radio's Makers Quest 2.0 Talent Committee, and Public Radio International's Program Director Advisory Group. He served on Eastern Region Public Media's executive board and the executive board of the African American Public Radio Consortium. Maxie holds a master's degree in multichannel management from Michigan State University. He earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast management from Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Robert W. McChesney co-founded Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund with Josh Silver in 2002. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author or editor of 13 award-winning books, including Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928–1935; Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy; The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism (with Edward S. Herman); Our Media, Not Theirs (with John Nichols); Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times; The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century; Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy (with John Nichols); Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media; and, most recently, The Death and Life of American Journalism (with John Nichols). He hosts a weekly program, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, the NPR affiliate in Urbana, Illinois.

John Nichols is the Nation's Washington correspondent and editorial-page editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wis. He is the author of Against the Beast: A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire; Jews for Buchanan; and Dick: The Man Who Is President and co-author, with Robert McChesney, of It's the Media, Stupid!; Our Media, Not Theirs; Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy; and, most recently, The Death and Life of American Journalism.

Liza Pike was the founder of Resource Media's California office, where she helped shape the overall growth and direction of the organization and was lead strategist on a number of campaigns and projects. Resource Media is a national environmental communications nonprofit that provides strategic communications and media-outreach services to a diverse group of clients including foundations, advocacy campaigns, nonprofit organizations and individuals working to protect the environment and improve public health. Before joining Resource Media, Liza was a press officer for the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco and worked with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) as program and marketing director and in a number of other capacities. She is a member of CIR's board and also serves on the board of the Center for Media Change. She is currently developing a social media mentors project for nonprofits.

Josh Silver is the co-founder and former president and CEO of Free Press and serves as president emeritus on both the Free Press and Free Press Action Fund boards. He is the founding CEO of United Republic, an operating foundation challenging the undue influence of corporations over government policymaking. Josh speaks and publishes widely on media, government corruption and technology issues. He was previously campaign manager for the successful Clean Elections in Arizona ballot initiative and director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Josh has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and featured in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, C-SPAN and NPR.

Loris Ann Taylor is executive director of Native Public Media, which represents the media interests of Native America through legacy and new media technologies including radio, television, video, Internet and journalism (both print and digital). She was instrumental in helping to establish the first FCC Tribal Priority for broadcasting and the new FCC Office of Native Affairs. Taylor led the team that published the seminal study on broadband, New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country, and contributed to the FCC's National Broadband Plan.

Taylor was honored with a 2006 Louis T. Delgado Award and the 2005 Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award. Formerly the general manager of KUYI-FM Radio, Taylor co-founded the Indian Country News Bureau, which won the UNITY Journalist of Color Award. She also produced the children's program Shooting Stars and the weekly talk show House Calls, which received an award from the U. S. Indian Health Service. Taylor instituted the first radio class and curriculum at the Hopi Junior Senior High School. Taylor currently serves as a member of the Distribution and Interconnection Committee of the NPR board, and is active in the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society program.