Alliance for Digital Equality Selects Former Mayor Shirley Franklin as Senior Advisor

ATLANTA, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE), a national non-profit consumer advocacy organization that serves to facilitate and ensure equal access to technology in un-served and underserved communities, has selected former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin as ADE's Senior Advisor.  In this role, Franklin will advise the Chairman and assist the executive team as they strengthen and expand the organization's programs.

The first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African American woman to serve as mayor of a major southern city, Shirley Franklin was first elected in 2002 and served two-terms as the 58th Mayor of the City of Atlanta until January 2010.

"At this critical time in the telecommunications industry, we are especially pleased to have Shirley on board," said Julius H. Hollis, ADE Chairman.  "As we look forward to the ways that we can work with Congress and the FCC to achieve President Obama's goal of universal broadband access, I am confident that Shirley will be a tremendous asset in ensuring that America's communities of color are empowered on a variety of policy, economic and cultural issues during one of the most significant transformative periods in our society fueled by the Digital Revolution."

Franklin currently holds the position of the William and Camille Cosby Professorship at Spelman College in Atlanta, co chairs the Regional Commission on Homelessness, serves as Vice Chair of the Center of Civil and Human Rights and serves on the board of the United Nations Institute For Training and Research (UNITAR).

She holds a Bachelors of Arts from Howard University and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

ADE serves as a bridge between policymakers and minority individuals in order to help the public understand how legislative and regulatory policies regarding new technologies can impact and empower their daily lives.

The ADE has launched Digital Empowerment Councils in Charleston, S.C., Houston, TX, Detroit, MI, Miami, FL, Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA and Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, CA.  Over the next 24 months, the ADE will expand its Councils in 18 additional cities across the country.

ADE's goal is to educate Americans about the benefits of new broadband technologies and be a voice of underserved communities to raise awareness of the importance of new technologies regardless of socioeconomic status.

About the Alliance for Digital Equality - The Alliance for Digital Equality, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a national non-profit consumer advocacy organization that serves to facilitate and ensure equal access to technology in underserved communities.  The Alliance also serves as a bridge between policymakers and minority individuals in order to help the public understand how legislative and regulatory policies regarding new technologies can impact and empower their daily lives.  For more information on The Alliance for Digital Equality, please visit www.alliancefordigitalequality.org.    

SOURCE Alliance for Digital Equality

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