Nico Perrino
Â鶹´«Ã½IOS Staff Speaker
Nico Perrino is Â鶹´«Ã½IOS's executive vice president and the creator and host of Â鶹´«Ã½IOS’s . Prior to his current role, he led Â鶹´«Ã½IOS's Communications department for nearly a decade, most recently as its senior vice president of communications.
Nico's writing has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian, and he regularly appears on radio and TV to speak about free speech and other civil liberties issues. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Civil Libertarians: How a Generation of Lawyers, Writers, and Activists Created America’s Free Speech Century (BenBella).
As a documentarian, Nico was co-director and senior producer of (2020), a feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser. He also worked as a consultant on (2015) and (2024).
Originally from Chicago, Nico now lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area.
Selected television appearances
- °ä±·±·â€™s&²Ô²ú²õ±è; (2025)
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- Glenn Greenwald’s (2025)
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- °ä±·±·â€™s&²Ô²ú²õ±è; (2025)
- °ä±·±·â€™s&²Ô²ú²õ±è; (2023)
- ´Ü±ð³Ù±ð´Ç’s&²Ô²ú²õ±è; (2025)
Selected speeches
- (2023)
Selected podcast appearances
- (2025)
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- (2024)
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- (National Review; 2022)
Selected writings
- (Los Angeles Times, 2024)
- (The Boston Globe, 2023)
- (Los Angeles Times, 2023)
- (The Daily Beast, 2023)
- (Washington Examiner, 2023)
- (SPIN, 2023)
- USA Today, 2017)
- (Politico, 2017)
Recent Writings
- Violence must never be a response to speech,
- This isn't just about Harvard,
- California and other states are rushing to regulate AI. This is what they’re missing,
- Â鶹´«Ã½IOS to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand censorship. End it. ,
- What happens when America's future leaders reject the liberty on which it was founded?,
- In defunding Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, legislators force academic freedom back into the closet,
- No, a heckler’s veto is not ‘more speech’,
- Defending Free speech is a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it: SPIN magazine interviews Nico Perrino of Â鶹´«Ã½IOS,
- Free speech was under fire in 2022,
- Free speech culture, Elon Musk, and Twitter,
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