While serving as Research Director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation, J.H. Snider focused on the policy paradigm changing implications of emerging information technologies, including fiber optics and smart radio, in the areas of telecommunications, e-education, e-commerce, and e-democracy. Mr. Snider came to New America after serving in the U.S. Senate on the staffs of Senators Wyden and Leahy as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications and Public Policy.

Mr. Snider is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Snider's graduate work on telecommunications and media policy won two graduate student paper awards from the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and two Goldsmith Research Awards from Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, & Public Policy. His op-eds have been published in The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick (iUniverse), a book on telecommunications and media politics and co-author of Future Shop (St. Martin's), an early work on e-commerce. He has testified before Congress a number of times, with one of his congressional speeches receiving the rare honor of being published in Vital Speeches of the Day.