Sean Gonsalves is the associate director for communications with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community Broadband Networks Initiative. Following an extensive career as a reporter, columnist, and news editor, he has researched and written about efforts to close the digital divide at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) since 2020. His contributions to
communitynetworks.org, a project of ILSR, has made the site one of the nation’s leading storehouses of information on municipal broadband and other forms of publicly-owned, locally-controlled broadband networks. An award-winning reporter and columnist, his work has appeared in the
Oakland Tribune,
Kansas City Star, and
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as well as
The Boston Globe,
USA Today,
The Washington Post, and the
International Herald-Tribune.
