We invite you to spend your summer with Sphere and catch some of the best professional learning and development experiences around from the convenience of wherever you may be. Up first will be a session with Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Streamed live from Sphere Summit, the conversation will touch on the importance of free speech, academic freedom, and some of the challenges in both K12 and higher education. Join us Monday, July 15, 2024, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EDT.

Jameel Jaffer is the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Prior to joining the Knight Institute, he was deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy, where he oversaw the ACLU’s work relating to free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights.

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self‐​government.