Jason R. Baron is a professor of the practice at the University of Maryland College of Information, a former trial attorney and senior counsel at the Department of Justice, and the first director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration. He is an advocate for improving FOIA through artificial intelligence technologies.

Lauren Harper is the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation and formerly at the National Security Archive.

Liz Hempowicz is deputy executive director at American Oversight and former vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project on Government Oversight.

Bill Holzerland is deputy chief FOIA officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with an extensive career across agencies advocating for FOIA and the American Society of Access Professionals.

Alexander Howard is director of the Digital Democracy Project, co-director of the Advisory Committee on Transparency, and former deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation.

Richard L. Huff served as one of two co-directors of the Office of Information and Privacy since the Office’s creation in 1982 until his retirement in 2005.  He was the official designated by the Attorney General to act on all administrative appeals from denials under the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act of 1974 by Department of Justice components. He litigated and supervised FOIA cases at the district and appellate level and has testified before Congress on the implementation of the 1996 Electronic FOIA Amendments and on the interface between the FOIA and the Privacy Act. 

                He has overseen the development of the “Freedom of Information Act Guide,” the Department of Justice’s 1100-page treatise that was updated and distributed every other year to more than 22,000 recipients, before being made available on-line. 

                Mr. Huff came to the Department of Justice in 1976 after serving seven years on active duty in the Army. He is now a retired colonel in the Army Reserve; during his last reserve assignment he was attached to the Army Judge Advocate General’s School where he taught FOIA and Privacy Act subjects to military graduate students. 

                Since retiring Mr. Huff has made one-, two-, and three-day training presentations for the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Army, and Homeland Security, as well as for the Graduate School (formerly the USDA Graduate School) and American Society of Access Professionals.

                Mr. Huff received a B.A. from Stanford, an M.A. from St. Mary’s University, a Juris Doctor from UC Law – San Francisco, and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University.

Nate Jones is FOIA director for The Washington Post and formerly of the National Security Archive, and author of the “Revealing Records” column.

Margaret Kwoka is Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and author of “Saving the Freedom of Information Act.”

Adam Marshall is director of national litigation at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

David McCraw is senior vice president and deputy general counsel at The New York Times, where he has litigated significant FOIA cases for nearly two dozen years and trained the future generation of media law attorneys.