First Amendment Center
at Vanderbilt University
1207 18th Ave.
S.
Nashville, TN 37212
Tel: 615/727-1600
Fax: 615/727-1319
E-mail:
info@fac.org
First Amendment Center/Arlington
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA
22209
Tel: 703/528-0800
Fax: 703/284-2879
The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment
freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the
study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of
the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the
government.
The First Amendment Center, with offices at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C., is an operating program of the Freedom
Forum and is associated with the Newseum. Its affiliation with Vanderbilt University is through the
Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.
See FAQs about the First Amendment
Center.
For more information: See the First
Amendment Center fact sheet.
Map to First Amendment Center, Nashville,
Tenn.
Directions to
the Freedom Forum offices in Arlington, Va.
Executive staff & contacts
Vice president and executive director: Gene Policinski
Founder: John Seigenthaler
Freedom
Forum chairman and chief executive officer: Charles
L. Overby
Press contact: Office of the executive director, 615/727-1703
Other staff
Ombudsman
Paul K.
McMasters, First Amendment ombudsman
First Amendment education programs
Charles C. Haynes, senior scholar
Legal research
Tiffany Villager, director/First Amendment studies
David L. Hudson Jr., First Amendment scholar
The First Amendment Library
Ronald K.L. Collins, First Amendment
scholar
Web site
Brian J. Buchanan,
managing editor
(Note to First Amendment attorneys: The Newseum is looking for actual
items that were at the center of First Amendment legal cases, such as T-shirts,
protest posters, censored newspapers/magazines, records, etc. If you have an
artifact that you think might be suitable, please contact Peggy Engel.)