Michael Morisy

Michael Morisy is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MuckRock, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening transparency and accountability through public records. Under his leadership, MuckRock has helped connect millions of requesters with training, request templates, and other practical resources to access government information at the local, state, and federal level. MuckRock also maintains an archive of tens of millions of pages of released records and supports more than 4,000 newsrooms through tools including DocumentCloud and FOIA Machine.

Morisy has also contributed to the advancement of federal transparency policy through two terms of service on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee. He previously served as a digital technology editor at The Boston Globe and was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.

He is a graduate of Cornell University and has served on the boards of the American Society of Access Professionals and the National Freedom of Information Coalition.