Senior Reporter, Editor and Communications Team Lead
Community Broadband Networks Initiative, Institute for Local Self Reliance
Sean Gonsalves is a longtime former reporter, columnist, and news editor with the Cape Cod Times. He is also a former nationally syndicated columnist whose work has been published in the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Washington Post and the International Herald-Tribune. He left print journalism in 2014 to work as a senior communication consultant for Regan Communications and Pierce-Cote, advising a variety of business, non-profit and government agency clients on communication strategy. In October 2020, Sean joined the Institute for Local Self-Reliance staff as a senior reporter, editor and researcher for ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks Initiative. With ILSR, Sean has become an excellent source of information on how federal broadband funds in the American Rescue Plan Act and the recently passed Infrastructure & Investment Jobs Act can be put to use by states and local governments. He is well-versed in the many local success stories in the creation of municipal, cooperative, and nonprofit community networks popping up all across the nation. Sean is currently a board member for the middle-mile network OpenCape and an advisory board member for FalmouthNet, a citizen-led non-profit championing an effort to bring fiber-to-the-home service to the town of Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod where he lives.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
12:30pm – 1:20pm