Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression Center. He has commented extensively on free speech and human rights in outlets including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, UnHerd, Time Magazine, The Economist, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.

Mchangama has appeared in electronic media including BBC, France 24, NPR and NBC News. He has published in academic and peer-reviewed journals, including Human Rights Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science and Human Rights Law Review. He was the producer and narrator of the podcast “Clear and Present” Danger: A History of Free Speech and the critically acclaimed book Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media, published by Basic Books in 2022. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work on free speech and human rights.

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