Looking to increase minority and female participation in the communications industry, the FCC has renewed the charter for its Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age. It will add two more years, through 12/5/08 as a result of the move. It is also scheduled to meet later this month on Thursday 12/21/06 to "consider possible areas in which to develop recommendations" on furthering this goal. The chair of the Committee is former Commissioner Henry Rivera. Both the communications industry and watchdog community are well represented.

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Full committee membership

Lisa M. Fowlkes, Designated Federal Officer

Barbara Kreisman, Alternate Designated Federal Officer

Chair: Henry Rivera,Emma Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media

Members

Daryl E. Bassett, Arkansas Public Service Commission

Matthew Blank, Showtime Network

Maria E. Brennan, American Women in Radio & Television

Sheba Chacko, BT Americas, Inc.

Abel Guerra, Latino Coalition

Salvador Guzman, WHEW Radio

David Honig, Minority Media & Telecommunications Council

Rodney Hood, National Credit Union Administration

Paul Jones, Time Warner Telecom

Rebecca A. Klein, Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal, LLP

Marc S. Lampkin, Quinn Gillespie & Associates

Marie Long, AT&T

Vonya McCann, Sprint Nextel

Robert Mendez, ABC Television Network

Max Navarro, Operational Technologies Corporation

Andrew Schwartzman, Media Access Project

Tara Sweeney, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

Kade Twist, Native Laboratories

Margarita Wilder, Entravision Communications

James Winston, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters