Press Contact

Primary: 

Executive Director

Peter Bonilla

[email protected]

(Cambridge, Mass.)

Secondary: 

Communications Committee Chairman

Eric Rasmusen

[email protected]

(812) 345-8573

(Bloomington, IN.)

See also:

Our media mention page 

Press Releases

2026

• MIT Council on Academic Freedom Elects Officers (January 5, 2026)

2025

• MFSA Leads STEM-Focused Session Heterodox Academy’s 2025 Conference (July 16, 2025) 
  
  
• MIT Free Speech Alliance Elects New Directors Frank Laukien and Steven Carhart (April 7, 2025)
  
  
• MFSA's Concerned Donors Fund Makes Its First Grant (March 3, 2025)
  
  
• MIT Free Speech Alliance President Stargardt Speaks at Heterodox Academy Conference (February 14, 2025)

2024

• MFSA Brings Student, Faculty, Administrative Leaders Together at Second Annual Free Expression Conference (October 16, 2024)
  
  
• MIT Tumbles in Latest College Free Speech Rankings (September 18, 2024)
  
  
• Steven Pinker to Deliver Keynote at MFSA’s 2024 Conference (June 26, 2024)
  
  
• MFSA's Recommendations Report for MIT (May 28, 2024)
  
  
• The Is Sex Binary? Debate at MIT, April 17 (April 23, 2024)

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

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