Nico Perrino
FIREStaff Speaker
Nico Perrino is 果冻传媒app官方's Executive Vice President and the creator and host of 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 . Prior to his current role, he led 果冻传媒app官方's Communications department for nearly a decade, most recently as its Senior Vice President of Communications.
Nico's writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian, and he regularly appears on radio and TV to speak about free speech and other civil liberties issues. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Triumph of the Civil Libertarians: How a Generation of Lawyers, Writers, and Activists Created America鈥檚 Free Speech Century (BenBella).
As a documentarian, Nico was Co-Director and Senior Producer of 鈥溾 (2020), a feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser. He also worked as a consultant on 鈥溾 (2015) and "" (2024).
Nico graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington (IU) with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in journalism and history. While at IU, he was a member of the track & field team and served as editor-in-chief for the Indiana Standard and as a reporter and columnist for the Indiana Daily Student.
Originally from Chicago, Nico now lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area.
Recent Writings
- California and other states are rushing to regulate AI. This is what they鈥檙e missing,
- FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don鈥檛 expand censorship. End it. ,
- What happens when America's future leaders reject the liberty on which it was founded?,
- In defunding Indiana University鈥檚 Kinsey Institute, legislators force academic freedom back into the closet,
- No, a heckler鈥檚 veto is not 鈥榤ore speech鈥,
- Defending Free speech is a dirty job but someone鈥檚 gotta do it: SPIN magazine interviews Nico Perrino of 果冻传媒app官方,
- Free speech was under fire in 2022,
- Free speech culture, Elon Musk, and Twitter,
- 鈥楽o to Speak鈥 podcast: Elon Musk, PayPal, and is New York trying to destroy Twitch?,
- 鈥楽o to Speak鈥 podcast: Does your book need a sensitivity reader?,
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