American Association for Public Broadband

The American Association for Public Broadband announced that Joshua Edmonds, Chief Executive Officer of DigitalC, has joined its Board of Directors. “Joshua brings exactly what this moment demands: on-the-ground execution, community trust, and a clear vision for closing the digital divide,” said Gigi Sohn, Executive Director of AAPB. “His leadership at DigitalC shows how communities can build affordable, reliable networks that deliver real results.

The American Association for Public Broadband is proud to announce the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors: Lexi Christensen, Marketing Director at UTOPIA Fiber, and Brian Vo, Chief Investment Officer at Connect Humanity. Lexi Christensen has more than a decade of experience in the broadband industry and currently serves as Marketing Director at UTOPIA Fiber, where she has led marketing efforts since 2016. Brian Vo brings over 20 years of investment and strategy experie

Here they go again. Using false and tired arguments, big cable is attacking three community broadband networks that residents and their elected officials chose to build and own. And like it did earlier in 2023 in Bountiful City, Utah, it is hiding behind a surrogate that doesn’t reveal its financial supporters. It is profoundly ironic that the country’s richest media companies are attacking “government-run” networks when they are at the same time bringing in billions of dollars of subsidies from the federal government and seeking billions more in grants from state governments.

Gigi Sohn will serve as the Executive Director of the American Association for Public Broadband (AAPB). Sohn will ensure public entities will have a visible, powerful, and consistent voice that will make the positive case for states to fund and communities to choose public broadband and oppose barriers to local choice. Founded by state and local broadband officials, AAPB is a 501 (c)(6) non-profit organization that will build a diverse membership of public broadband networks nationwide and advocate for municipal broadband and local choice at the federal, state, and local levels.