Michael Reagan's Story: Child Survivor to Safety Advocate Thursday, October 3, 2024

Donna Rice Hughes has 30 years of leadership as a social entrepreneur and internet safety expert, as well as an author, speaker, commentator and producer. She is CEO/President of Enough Is Enough® (EIE), a non-partisan organization that has led the fight to make the internet safer for children and families since 1994. Under her leadership, EIE has led advocacy efforts to pass groundbreaking bi-partisan federal laws, launched the national Safe WiFi Campaign resulting in McDonald's and Starbucks filtering illegal content on their public WiFi, and led the Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge, Governor’s Pledge and State Attorney General Pledge. She has been a featured expert in most major new outlets and has given over 4,000 interviews. She testified multiple times before Congress and served on the COPA Commission. She was executive producer of the Emmy-award winning Internet Safety 101® PBS series and received an Emmy nomination as the program's host. She was the recipient of The Women In Technology Award for Social Impact, and The Professional Women in Advocacy Excellence In Advocacy Award for "Veteran Practitioner". Donna graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of South Carolina and is married to Jack Hughes. They have five grandchildren.