Jeff Chester, CDD Founder and Executive Director

Jeff Chester has been an important force in public-interest media issues for more than twenty years. He is one of the nation's leading advocates working on telecommunications issues. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. His first book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, was released in January 2007. A former investigative reporter and filmmaker, he has long been at the forefront of the fight against consolidation and commercialization of the U.S. media system.

He received his MSW in Community Mental Health from UC Berkeley in 1978 and his BA in psychology from California State University, San Francisco in 1975.