Nolan A. Bowie has over 20 years' experience as a professional and volunteer advocate, lawyer, writer, consultant, advisor and teacher in various activities concerning broadcasting, telecommunications, and information policy. He is an associate Professor at Temple University, School of Communications and Theater, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media. For the academic year 1995-96, he served as Visiting Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Professor Bowie is a widely respected communications attorney, and the former staff attorney and Executive Director of Citizens Communications Center, a Washington, D.C. public interest law firm and education facility. Professor Bowie has also served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Department of Law. He serves on the Board of Directors of Independent Television Service (ITVS), Deep Dish Television Network, Inc., The Cultural Environment Movement, Inc., Strategies for Media Literacy, Inc., and is a Trustee of the Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center, and an advisor to The Center for Media Education.

Professor Bowie's primary policy concerns are with promoting the public interest regarding issues of equality and access to information and to information technology, as well as the concerns of minorities, women, children, and those whose voices are generally underrepresented or unrepresented in policymaking regarding broadcasting, media and telecommunications.