Chairwoman Rosenworcel Announces Staff Changes

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel added Brad Barry as Senior Advisor to the FCC for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Deena Shetler, as Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration. Barry will coordinate the agency’s anti-digital discrimination efforts, working in partnership with the Task Force to Prevent Digital Discrimination, which is led by D’wana Terry and Sanford Williams, Special Advisors to the Chairwoman, and Alejandro Roark, Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, who oversees engagement with stakeholders to ensure that task force recommendations reflect the needs of historically unserved and underserved communities. Barry brings to the FCC broad-ranging legal and executive-level managerial experience in the federal government and the nonprofit sector, and as a partner in nationally recognized law firms. Shetler will focus on administrative matters for the FCC. She was most recently Deputy Chief of the Office of Economics and Analytics and before that was Deputy Managing Director and previously held several leadership roles in the Wireline Competition Bureau, including Associate Bureau Chief and Deputy Chief of the Pricing Policy Division and before that served as a Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani.