Harrington Shaw

Harrington Shaw is the managing director of the UNC Alumni Free Speech Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting free expression and academic freedom at Carolina. Shaw previously worked as an intern for UNC AFSA while serving as the president of the Student Free Speech Alliance at UNC, which he founded in 2023. He was an intern for the James G. Martin Center from 2022 to 2024, where he conducted research on higher-education policy and authored numerous articles and reports. He also interned for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Campus Free Expression Project in Washington, D.C. Shaw graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2024 with a B.A. degree in economics and philosophy. His senior thesis, titled “Autonomy, Hate Speech, and Civil Discourse,” focused on defending free speech in the face of increasing calls for the censorship of hateful rhetoric.