Harold Feld is legal director of Public Knowledge.  Until 2009, he was Senior Vice President of the Media Access Project (MAP), a non-profit, public interest telecommunications law firm that promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow. An activist lawyer, he received his B.A. from Princeton University his J.D. from Boston University Law School. Harold joined MAP in August 1999 after practicing communications, Internet, and energy law at Covington & Burling. He also served as co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association's Online Committee and has written numerous articles on Internet law and communications policy for trade publications and legal journals. Harold has clerked for the Hon. John M. Ferren of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.