Andrew Jay Schwartzman
Andrew Jay Schwartzman is Senior Counselor to the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. A 1971 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Schwartzman became one of the first public interest communications lawyers, directing the Media Access Project for 35 years. He worked for the Office of Communication, United Church of Christ (1978-2012), and Georgetown University Law Center’s technology clinic (2014-2019). He has also taught at Johns Hopkins, Southwestern Law School and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge.
Schwartzman received the University of Pennsylvania Law Alumni Society’s 2021 James Wilson Award for a “lifetime of public service.” He is also recipient of the United Church of Christ’s Everett C. Parker Award, and the 2004 Media Matters Life Achievement Award, and was named to the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council’s Hall of Fame. Scientific American honored Schwartzman as one of the nation’s 50 leaders in technology for 2004.