FCC Commissioner Starks Announces Staff Changes

Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks announced several changes to his team. Austin Bonner, Acting Chief of Staff and Legal Advisor for media and consumer protection issues, has departed Starks’s office. She heads to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on detail. Justin Faulb, Starks’s Wireline and National Security Advisor, will serve as Chief of Staff. Joining the office as Legal Advisor for media and consumer protection issues is Hannah Lepow. Lepow was previously an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in the Communications & Media and Data Privacy & Cybersecurity practice groups, where she worked on regulatory and transactional matters with a focus on media and consumer privacy. She received her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Columbia University.