Press Releases

Press Contact

Primary: Executive Director Peter Bonilla, peter@mitfreespeech.org.  215-531-2171 (Eastern, Cambridge, Mass.). 

Secondary:  Communications Committee Chairman Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse61@gmail.com, (812) 345-8573 (Eastern, Bloomington, IN.). 

See also our media mention page, linking news stories that mention MFSA. 

2023

• MIT Free Speech Alliance joins Amicus Brief Asking the Supreme Court to hear Bias Response Team case (September 28, 2023)

• Glenn Loury to Keynote MIT Free Speech Alliance’s Inaugural Conference on Free Expression (September 12, 2023)

• MIT Improves in FIRE’s 2024 College Free Speech Ranking While Attaining Second Among Wall Street Journal’s Best Colleges" (September 7, 2023)
• MIT Administration Continues to Support Free Speech during Current Campus Controversy: MIT Free Speech Alliance Applauds Focus on Civil Discourse with a separate page of pictures and source links. (April 30, 2023)
• First of-Its-Kind Debate on a U.S. Campus of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Occurs Peacefully at MIT (April 4, 2023)
• MIT Free Speech Alliance Praises MIT President’s Support for Free Expression Statement and Investment in Long-term Reforms (February 20, 2023)

2022

• December 27, 2022 — MIT Faculty Vote to Accept New Free Expression Statement Supported by MIT Free Speech Alliance
• November 1, 2022 — MIT Free Speech Alliance Hires FIRE’s Peter Bonilla as Executive Director
• October 25, 2022 —  MIT Chooses a New President  
• October 20, 2022 —  MIT’s 2022 Carlson Lecture, the First after the Notorious Dorian Abbot Cancellation, Is Today
• Sept. 28, 2022 —  Come to the MIT Free Speech Alliance zoom  tonight (Wed) at 7:30pm if you like
• September 6, 2022 —  MIT Moves Towards Restoring Free Expression 
• May 23, 2022 — MIT Free Speech Alliance Receives $500,000 Stanton Foundation Grant PDF.