Donna Rice Hughes, Advisor for Public Relations and Internet Safety Issues
Mrs. Hughes has more than 20 years of experience in public relations, marketing, communications, and government relations. Mrs. Hughes is the author of Kids Online: Protecting Your Children In Cyberspace (www.protectkids.com) (Revell, September 1998) and is a founding principal in Phoenix Financial and Advisory Services which serves small and mid-sized companies in the technology, media, and entertainment industries.
Mrs. Hughes most recently served as Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations of Enough Is Enough, a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to make the Internet safe for children and families. From 1994 through 1999, she led Enough Is Enough's Internet safety efforts and played a pioneering role in the national effort to make the Internet safe for children and families.
In 1999, Mrs. Hughes received a congressional appointment to the Child Online Protection Commission to examine technological solutions to protect children online and serves as co-chair of the filtering subcommittee. She has testified before both the House and Senate regarding Internet pornography and sexual predators.
Mrs. Hughes has given more than 1,700 media interviews on Internet Safety and has spoken extensively on the subject in educational and professional forums across the country. She has been a featured guest on numerous television shows including CNN's Crossfire, Dateline, Oprah Winfrey and The View with Barbara Walters. Additionally, her views on this issue have been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News and McCall's Magazine.
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