MMTC Fellowships

Since our founding in 1986, a key part of MMTC’s mission has been training attorneys, law students, and pre-law undergraduate students in the practice of communications law, particularly in the representation of clients before the Federal Communications Commission.

In MMTC’s public interest and civil rights law practice, we represent 70 national organizations in selected proceedings before the FCC, the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Our clients have included essentially all of the traditional civil rights organizations (including the NAACP, National Urban League, LULAC, NCLR and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition), professional and trade organizations such as the National Association of Black Telecommunications Professionals and the Spanish Broadcasters Association, religious organizations (the National Council of Churches and the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc.), unions (AFTRA and CWA) and many other organizations interested in fostering diversity and equal opportunity and in closing the digital divide.  MMTC serves as General Council to the Broadband Opportunity Coalition.

Through our legal training programs, we have trained 48 communications lawyers and law students.  Our Earle K. Moore Fellowship, created in 2001, is named after the pioneering communications lawyer who represented the United Church of Christ in the groundbreaking cases in the 1960s and 1970s that brought about the desegregation of broadcasting.  In 2006, we created the John W. Jones Fellowships, named after the late General Counsel of Radio One, who devoted much of his career to advancing the cause of minority media entrepreneurship. In 2010, we created a senior position – the Cathy Hughes Fellowship – in the honor of the media industry’s leading civil rights champion over the past three decades.

To apply for a fellowship, please send a letter of interest and resume to:

David Honig
President and Executive Director
Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
3636 16th Street N.W.
Suite B-366
Washington, D.C. 20010