PRINCIPALS

Lawrence K. Grossman Co-Chair of Digital Promise, is former president of NBC News and PBS, advertising agency owner, holder of the Frank Stanton First Amendment Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, and senior fellow and visiting scholar at Columbia University. He currently serves as a trustee of Connecticut Public Broadcasting and various nonprofit health organizations, and as a Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award juror. He is the author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age. (Viking/Penguin and The Twentieth Century Fund, 1996).

Newton N. Minow Co-Chair of Digital Promise, is former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, PBS, the RAND Corporation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He was a board member of CBS and the Tribune Company, and is a life trustee of Notre Dame and Northwestern Universities. He is coauthor (with Craig L. Lamay) of Abandoned in the Wasteland, an influential book on television and children. Senior Counsel to Sidley & Austin, Mr. Minow is also the Annenberg Professor of Communications Law and Policy at Northwestern University.
Both Mr. Minow and Mr. Grossman have undertaken this project on a pro bono basis.

Anne G. Murphy Co-Chair of the Digital Promise Project, is President of Linkages, a consulting firm specializing in public policy and the arts and humanities. Clients have included OVATION, a cable network dedicated to the arts, and the National Cultural Alliance. She was Director of the American Arts Alliance managing matters of public policy, legislation, and public relations. Earlier in her career she held senior positions at the Public Broadcasting Service and the National Endowment for the Arts. Anne serves on the Board of Overseers for the Corcoran Museum of Art.

Janet Hall Werner, Esq. Deputy Director of the Digital Promise Project, is the owner of Hall Government Relations, a government relations firm founded in 2001.  Hall specializes in education and technology issues before the United States Congress and federal agencies, focusing on planning and funding education and technology projects.  She also specializes in grassroots training and Capitol Hill events that increase visibility in Washington among policy makers and others.  She drafted legislation and amendments that were incorporated into the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002.  Hall has represented a broad array of clients in the education arena, including the JASON Foundation for Education, the Sea Research Foundation, PBS, and other public television organizations. Hall is a 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, and a 1985 graduate, cum laude, of State University of New York College at Fredonia.