 I came to public knowledge because I wanted to work at a place that valued giving a voice to the voiceless and giving people an opportunity to have their opinions and their stories be heard and very rarely do you find a place where you can combine both the legal aspects and the human aspects of an issue and I think public knowledge is a really great job of doing that and this was a really incredible opportunity to learn both the policy side of things as well as the political side of things in one place What's going to happen next year in the administration will require a lot of initiative regarding infrastructure and here at public knowledge we're trying to make broadband infrastructure a part of the discussion whether that involves deploying in certain areas or making it cheaper or more cost effective for consumers to access it in areas where it's already being converted I've been working a lot with net neutrality issues since I've been here and while we've laid a lot of the foundation and the groundwork and we've made a lot of progress with the issue there's still a lot to be done, there's still a lot to defend especially with changing administration and changing policies so being able to continue that work and make sure that no matter what we do we'll continue to fight for what's best for the consumers So I'm excited about continuing to work on broadband deployment and portability issues in the next administration a lot of what we're going to do will probably require educating stakeholders educating members of Congress on why these issues continue to remain important and protecting consumers from lack of competition in the marketplace and ensuring that quality of performance I think with how quickly technology is changing and how intervals become in our lives having access to an open internet and having cool opportunities to have your voice heard is no longer an optional luxury it's a necessity to surviving and I think it's easy for us to forget that there are so many people out there who don't have the same opportunities and same access that we do and unless we continue to fight for them no one else will Hi, I'm Public Knowledge Vice President Chris Lewis Here at Public Knowledge we're focused on the future the future of technology and what it means to preserve freedom of expression in an open internet the future threats to those values and through our fellows program the next generation of advocates who will lead future fights to preserve the public interest we need your help to preserve that future so please visit publicknowledge.org slash give and donate today, thank you