Benton Fellow Gigi Sohn Receives Louis H. Pollak Award From Penn Carey Law Alumni Society

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Thursday, May 18, 2023

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Benton Fellow Gigi Sohn Receives Louis H. Pollak Award From Penn Carey Law Alumni Society

This evening in Philadelphia (PA), the Penn Carey Law Alumni Society will bestow its Louis H. Pollak Award on Gigi Sohn, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Senior Fellow and Public Advocate. The Louis H. Pollak Award is presented each year to a member of the Penn Carey Law alumni community who pursues a career advancing justice through service to others. Sohn is being recognized for serving as an inspiration and role model to Penn Carey Law students and alumni aspiring to impactful careers in public service. Sohn is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. For nearly thirty-five years, she has worked across the country to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open and protective of user privacy. The following statement may be attributed to Benton Institute Executive Director Adrianne B. Furniss:

“For over five years, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society has supported Gigi’s work to ensure that all people in our nation can access and use high-performance broadband networks. In that time, as throughout her decades-long career, I’ve seen Gigi identify, organize, and partner with public interest groups, philanthropy, bipartisan federal, state, and local representatives, academics, and companies large and small. She is expert at mastering complex policy issues, bringing disparate voices together to find common purpose, and pursuing the public interest. She has continually sought to raise public awareness, demonstrating, again and again, the ability to communicate what is at stake in ways that ordinary people can understand. Sohn has long been at the forefront of helping advance pragmatic policies that help improve the lives of everyday Americans, and the Benton Institute is proud to be associated with her.”

 

The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all people in the U.S. have access to competitive, High-Performance Broadband regardless of where they live or who they are. We believe communication policy - rooted in the values of access, equity, and diversity - has the power to deliver new opportunities and strengthen communities.


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