Mark Lloyd is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches communications policy and is working on a book on the relationship between communications policy and strong democratic communities. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan project he co-founded to bring civil rights principles and advocacy to the communications policy debate. As part of his work with the Civil Rights Forum, Mr. Lloyd established and coordinated a successful national campaign, with over a hundred grassroots members and chapters in twelve cities, called People for Better TV. The goal of the campaign was to prod the Federal Communications Commission to issue public interest guidelines for local television stations.

Previously, Mr. Lloyd worked as General Counsel to the Benton Foundation, and as a communications attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non-commercial companies. He also has nearly twenty years of experience as a print and broadcast journalist, including work as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN. He has served as board member of dozens of national and local organizations, including the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Independent Television Service, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. He has also served as a consultant to the Clinton White House, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Smithsonian Institution. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.