Lauren-Glenn Davitian is Executive Director of CCTV Center for Media & Democracy based in Burlington Vermont. For more than twenty years she has worked to secure free speech and public access for Vermont communities through the start up and protection of 43 public access TV channels across the state. In an effort to secure public access to all technologies of the information age, she worked to establish the state's first community technology center (1995) and is now actively involved in state and national policy efforts. In the past year she edited the People's Guide to the Telecommunications Act of 2006 and Community Media Centers 2.0 for the Alliance for Community Media's (ACM) Community Media Review. In additional to local efforts, Lauren-Glenn serves on the Board of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and the Media & Democracy Coalition-which includes 20 regional and national organizations working to ensure that local communities maintain control of the airwaves and public rights of way that belong to them. In recognition of her dedication to community media and free speech, the ACM awarded Lauren-Glenn the George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communications.