Mark Lloyd, director of New America Foundation’s Media Policy Initiative, will serve as USC Annenberg’s Executive-in-Residence next week, Feb. 19-22.
Lloyd will visit classes at USC Annenberg and the USC Gould School of Law, meet with student organizations and discuss Annenberg’s diversity initiative with school leaders.
He will deliver a talk titled "Intersections: Social Justice, Advocacy, Media and Public Policy" at the Dean's Open Forum at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 20, in room 207.
Lloyd is a distinguished analyst and activist with a broad background in universities, think tanks, government and media-related non-profits. He served as the Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity officer at the Federal Communications Commission from 2009-2012. At the FCC, he advised the agency on how to promote diverse participation in the communications field, including work on the National Broadband Plan and the Market Entry Barriers Affecting the Critical Information Needs of All Americans.
“We are fortunate to have an individual of Mark Lloyd's experience and caliber as our special Executive-in-Residence. I know we will all benefit from his wisdom,” said Dean Ernest J. Wilson III.
According to the New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative, Lloyd has worked as a lawyer, a public policy researcher and advocate and as a journalist. He is an affiliate professor of Public Policy at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, where he occasionally teaches a course on the Public Policy of Communications.
In 2009, Lloyd was the vice president for Strategic Initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Education Fund. Prior to joining LCCR, Lloyd was a senior fellow at the Center of American Progress where he wrote, conducted research and analyzed communications policy. From 2002-2004, he was a visiting scholar at MIT where he conducted research and taught communications policy.
Lloyd has lectured at Harvard, UCLA, USC, UC-Riverside, NYU, Penn State and other academic institutions in the U.S. and abroad. He has been general counsel of the Benton Foundation, a domestic policy advisor at the Clinton White House, the executive director of the Civil Rights Forum on Telecommunications Policy and an attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm Dow, Lohnes & Albertson.
Before becoming a communications lawyer, Mr. Lloyd was an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, working for public and commercial radio and television, including work at NBC and CNN.
The author of numerous articles and essays, including a contribution to the Encyclopedia of Journalism and work for the Aspen Institute, his book Prologue to a Farce, Communication and Democracy in America was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2007.
Mr. Lloyd graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a double major in journalism and political science, and from the Georgetown University Law Center.
