Heather Greenfield

Heather Greenfield

Director of Communications

Greenfield is the director of communications at the Computer and Communications Industry Association. She came from the National Journal's Technology Daily where she wrote about the political activities of bloggers and how candidates were using new media to get elected along with technology policy issues on Capitol Hill. She was a reporter for Associated Press in Washington DC for 12 years working both for newspaper and radio affiliates. During this time she also wrote a Washington column for TechWeek magazine, trained broadcast reporters in Ethiopia on U.S. investigative reporting techniques, and spent several months in Germany writing for die Tageszeitung in East Berlin as part of a journalist exchange program. Greenfield used to be a television reporter and anchor and came to Washington in 1991 as part of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Congressional Fellowship program in which she worked as a press assistant for the Senate Finance Committee under Chairman Lloyd Bensen of Texas and helped with the committee with alternative energy issues.

Awards include a Japan Foreign Press Fellowship, Arthur Burns Fellowship, Gannett Fellowship, a best local reporting award in 2002 from the Society of Professional Journalists and an Emmy for co-producing a documentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo for WCIV-TV. She has been interviewed on MSNBC, KCBS, KQED, WTOP, Federal News Radio, and CNN Radio on technology policy issues, and was interviewed by network affiliates around the country from the Pentagon after the 9/11 attacks.

She has a master's degree in communications from American University, a graduate certificate in Asian studies from the University of Hawaii and an honors degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.