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So to Speak podcast: FIRE’s 2019 Worst Colleges for Free Speech
FIRE staffers (from left) Sarah McLaughlin, Adam Steinbaugh, Will Creeley, and Nico Perrino.
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, FIRE staffers discuss our 2019 list of the 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech.
Participants in this show are:
- Nico Perrino, host of So to Speak, director of communications
- Will Creeley, senior vice president of legal and public advocacy
- Adam Steinbaugh, director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program
- Sarah McLaughlin, senior program officer for legal and public advocacy
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