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 LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Stanford Technology Law Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fraternal Law, Inside Higher Ed, 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 CBS Evening News, 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. He lives in New York City.
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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 chairman of the board of Valley Christian School in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
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William Creeley
Director of Legal and Public Advocacy
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Samantha Harris
Director, Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource
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.
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Adam Kissel
Director, Individual Rights Defense Program
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Sean Clark
Director, Finance and Operations
Sean Clark graduated from Penn State University in 2003 where he earned a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in History. As an undergraduate, he presided over Undergraduate Student Government Senate as its president, co-hosted a student run radio talk show called Radio Free Penn State, chaired the Student Organization Appeals Board, and served as vice-chairman and later as chairman of Penn State Young Americans for Freedom. In 2001, Sean became involved with FIRE when the foundation intervened on the behalf of YAF in a religious liberty dispute with the university. Sean first started with FIRE in 2005 as a Program Associate, later serving as a Program Officer and Assistant to the President and now manages the day-to-day operations of the FIRE office.
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 studied political science. For three years he served as executive editor and publisher of The Liberty, an independent commentary paper at Oregon State. 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 a 2005-2006 recipient of the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship and he was a student panelist at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2006. Luke was a FIRE summer intern in 2005.
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Alisha Glennon
Development Officer
Alisha is a Philadelphia native who graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Business Marketing. While in school, she was a member of Chi Omega sorority and played an active role on the chapter's Philanthropy committee. Alisha leads FIRE's development activities including donor relations, foundation grants, and fundraising events. Before joining FIRE, Alisha held a public affairs internship at Planned Parenthood. Alisha is a member of the Junior League of Philadelphia and the Association of Fundraising Professionals Philadelphia Chapter. She currently resides in Old City and has an adorable Boston terrier, Murphy.
Kelly Sarabyn
Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow
Kelly Sarabyn graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Virginia, where she earned a B.A. with highest distinction in Political Science. Her academic interests include constitutional law, and political philosophy, particularly theories of natural law and virtue ethics. During law school, she served on the staff of the Yale Journal of International Law and wrote a substantial paper on the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. At FIRE, she writes legal scholarship related to maintaining the marketplace of ideas on university campuses.
Azhar Majeed
Robert H. Jackson Legal Fellow
Azhar Majeed, a native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, received a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Michigan in 2004. He is also a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. As an undergraduate, his academic interests included comparative constitutional law and political philosophy, particularly from the time period of the Enlightenment. During law school, Azhar represented the University of Michigan at the 2006 Tulane International Moot Court competition. At FIRE, he writes legal scholarship related to upholding student speech rights on university campuses. Azhar was a FIRE legal intern in 2005.
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Erin Royce
Program Associate, Media
Erin Royce received her M.A. in Community Development from Eastern University in 2008. She graduated cum laude in 2005 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., where she majored in Journalism and minored in Music Business Administration. She served as a staff writer for The Belmont Vision, the university's newspaper, as a member of the Press Corps, Belmont's student public relations group, and interned with the Nashville Film Festival. At FIRE, she produces multimedia materials such as the FIRE Update, the podcasting series and content for the website. A native of the Philadelphia area, Erin writes screenplays in her spare time.
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Peter Bonilla
Program Associate, Finance and Operations
Peter Bonilla joined FIRE in April 2008 after serving for three seasons as the literary manager of Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre Company, where he was intensely involved in the development and production of new plays confronting the pressing political, social, and cultural issues of our time. Also a playwright, Peter received a 2008 individual creative artist fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and his play A HUMAN EQUATION was developed and presented in a staged reading at the 2008 PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, featuring Academy Award-nominated actor David Strathairn. Peter was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with B.A. degrees in theater arts and economics. He is thrilled to join FIRE and to help the cause of protecting freedom of speech and individual liberties on America's campuses. When he is not helping to manage the FIRE office or working on his playwriting, he is usually busy taking care of his two rescued greyhounds.
Brandon Stewart
Program Associate, Campus Freedom Network
Brandon Stewart is a 2008 graduate of Wabash College, where he majored in Religion and minored in Political Science. As an undergraduate, Brandon served as a class representative to the Student Senate and president of both the Pre-Law Society and the Inter-Fraternity Council. In addition, he served as founder and editor-in-chief of a campus news and opinion magazine, The Phoenix. In addition to publishing a monthly magazine, Brandon's organization also brought a number of speakers to campus, including Feminists for Life Vice President Sally Winn, National Review editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg and former US Attorney General John Ashcroft. Brandon first learned of FIRE in 2006 when he brought Greg Lukianoff to speak on his campus.
Claire Jenkins
Assistant to the President
Claire Jenkins is from Cleveland, Ohio and recently graduated from St. Lawrence University where she earned a B.A. magna cum laude in Government and Psychology. She completed her undergraduate honors project on acquiescence in children and its implications for their testimony. In college she also was on the Academic Honor Council, served as a Vice President of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and was a teaching assistant. For the past four years she has also been a part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program of Northern New York. Before joining FIRE, she worked on a research project with Case Western Reserve University about the impact of bi-polar disorder on senior citizens.
Jennifer Feden
Development Associate
Jennifer Feden graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 2008 with a B.A. in Policy Studies, a B.A. in Television-Radio-Film, and a minor in Spanish. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. While at Syracuse, Jennifer was selected as a First Amendment Scholar and co-created a short documentary exploring people's perceptions of and experiences with the First Amendment. She was also very active in non-profit work in college and is excited to be able to combine her passions both for serving society and for preserving the rights of individuals through her work at FIRE. Additionally, Jennifer is an avid fan of traveling and exploring new cultures, and she has spent time living and studying in both Costa Rica and London.