Heather Gate to Chair FCC CEDC, Among Other FCC Picks
The chair of the FCC’s new Communications Equity and Diversity Council will be Heather Gate, formerly vice chair of council predecessor the Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Inclusion, said a release Wednesday. Gate is Connected Nation vice president-digital inclusion.…
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The ACDDE’s former chair, Wiley Rein partner Anna Gomez, was designated chair emeritus, and will continue to serve on the CEDC. The CEDC’s new vice chairs will also be ACDDE veterans -- Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Nicol Turner Lee and Susan Au Allen, U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation CEO. Turner Lee was chair of the ACDDE’s Diversity in the Tech Sector Working Group, and Allen was on the ACDDE’s Digital Empowerment and Inclusion WG. The council’s first meeting is Nov. 3, and the rest of the group’s membership “will be announced at a later date,” along with the composition of the council’s new WGs: Innovation and Access, Digital Empowerment and Inclusion, and Diversity and Equity.