Mark Caramanica

Mark Caramanica, is the current director of the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project. He is a doctoral student in the College of Journalism and Communications focusing on new media and telecommunications law and policy. Mark received his B.A from the University of Florida in Economics, with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa. He also received his law degree and M.A. in Mass Communications (with distinction) from UF. During his time in law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the UF Journal of Technology Law & Policy and worked as a legal research assistant for the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project. During law/graduate school, he also worked in the sports newsroom at the Gainesville Sun.

Mark is licensed to practice law before the state and federal bars of New York and worked as a commercial litigator in New York City before returning to UF in 2007 to begin work on his Ph.D. Aside from leading the project, Mark has taught classes in media law within the college and also serves as a web content/multimedia production coordinator for additional outside research projects.

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