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52 Media L. Notes 1 (2023-2024)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts52 and id is 1 raw text is: Headnotes When I attended my first AEJMC annual conference, in 2011 in St. Louis, I didn't know anything or anyone. I had just finished my first year of my doctoral program, and I spent ample time at every Law & Policy session trying to blend into the wallpaper. I was intimidated and hanging back, not wanting to make a bad impression. Then a few senior scholars introduced themselves to me and, likely sensing the wallflower thing I was doing, walked me around to meet others. Bylines quickly became real people, and in the coming years, many became good friends, who since then have helped me grow as a teach- er, researcher, and colleague. That's a major reason why I'm excited and honored to serve as division head: the opportunity to pay it forward and, more broadly, to support the important work our members are doing. I'm also grateful to be following Jared Schroeder, of Missouri, as division head. We came up through the leadership ladder together, and he was always thoughtful, reliable, dedicated, and creative. He has said publicly he wouldn't be where he is without our division's mentorship, and I want to underline that the division wouldn't be where it is with- out Jared's service. He's had a hand in nearly everything we've done the past 8 years, and he's done it all with grace, humor, and vision. Many thanks to him. (Jared, you owe me another $50 for saying nice things about you.) We're coming off a dynamic 2023 annual conference where our pa- per and panel sessions addressed a wide variety of timely topics, among them: student press freedom, covering gun violence ethically and legally, Section 230 and content moderation, academic freedom, state laws restricting expression about sexual orientation and gender identity, legal remedies for deep fakes, and the global future and policy-making impact of media law research. There's no doubt we'll continue engaging with these issues in the next year-at the Southeast Colloquium, in our periodic PF&R programming, on social media, in the pages of Communication Law and Policy, and beyond. Speaking of the next year, my big-picture goals are to increase engagement and division membership among grad students, to maintain the number of submissions to our research competition, to increase opportunities for public engagement among our members, and to continue our ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts to welcome a variety of voices, research topics, and methodologies-while ensuring that everyone has representation in the division.