Rural Strategies Hosts FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on First Amendment Tour

In June, the Center for Rural Strategies hosted FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, along with five other panelists, on Gomez’s listening tour about the First Amendment.

Gomez is the lone Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

She was joined by five other panelists: Preston Mitchell, a faith leader and Episcipol deacon; Tiffany Sturdivant, director of the media non-profit Appalshop; Tracy Staley, a journalist and marketing expert who works with the Center for Rural Strategies; businessman, author and former Kentucky state representative Bill Weinberg; and Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center Executive Director Wes Addington, whose non-profit law firm advocates for protections for coal miners.

Read more about her visit on the Daily Yonder: https://dailyyonder.com/fccs-first-amendment-tour-arrives-in-kentucky/2025/06/25/

Or, watch some of the panel on YouTube: https://youtu.be/r2b8WjKcAUA?si=bxQIZxyQsPP_1zN-