FORA.tv Speaker - Marjorie Heins

Marjorie Heins is an activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project, a U.S. based organization dedicated to exploring challenges to free expression from censorship, media regulation, and intellectual property laws. She began the project in 2000 while at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). Heins founded and directed the Arts Censorship Project at the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991-1998, during the years in which arts censorship were a particularly controversial and active field. During that time, she worked on a number of high-profile arts censorship matters. Heins was co-counsel on the ACLU's Reno v. ACLU brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately led to striking the Communications Decency Act as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.