The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

We are pleased to report that LCCR/EF staff member Mark Lloyd has joined the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as associate general counsel and chief diversity officer.

The FCC is the federal agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.  In his new position, Lloyd will help the FCC to develop communications policy that will increase media diversity and address the needs of low-income people, women, minorities, people with disabilities.

Lloyd, a communications lawyer and former broadcast journalist, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress before joining LCCR/EF as vice president for strategic initiatives, where he provided strategic guidance for the organization's media and telecommunications work.