Executive DirectorNew Media Advocacy Project
Adam is the founder and executive director of the New Media Advocacy Project and the CEO of LawHub. His work focuses on using media and storytelling to shift the balance of power in the world’s legal systems. As a young lawyer, Adam experimented with video as a tool to win challenging civil and human rights cases. He made the bet that his clients could be their own best advocates if he could get their stories in front of decision makers--which proved true time and time again. He launched N-Map to professionalize and innovate how lawyers for the world’s most vulnerable communities use media and storytelling in their work. N-Map has grown from a one-person startup to a global organization with offices in New York, Mexico City and Lagos. N-Map is supported by Echoing Green, Open Society Foundations, the MacArthur Foundation, and many others. Adam recently founded LawHub, a for-profit social enterprise that uses media to make legal information more accessible to consumers.
Adam is a graduate of Amherst College (1998) and Harvard Law School (2004). After finishing law school, he served as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then received a Skadden Fellowship to work as a litigator at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. After his fellowship he joined Debevoise & Plimpton as a litigation associate. When not doing human rights work or producing media, Adam spends his time on a farm in upstate New York, where his wife raises grass-fed lamb and beef, and pastured chicken and eggs. He sits on the Board of Directors of the National Younger Farmers’ Coalition. Sometimes he even feeds the chickens himself!