Bob Williams, Strategic Resource Director

Bob Williams is a strategic resource director and head of the HearUsNow.org web site located at Consumers Union’s Washington, DC office. Bob came to Consumers Union in July 2006. Prior to joining CU he was a project director and investigative reporter with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC. While there he headed a one year project on the oil industry that received the 2005 Society of Professional Journalists award for online investigative reporting. He also supervised or played a leading role in several other CPI projects that won national journalism awards. Prior to that he was a reporter at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where he covered everything from hurricanes to hog waste. He was part of a team that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on the hog industry in North Carolina. He also led the paper’s coverage of Hurricane Floyd, which was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news in 1999. Before joining the News & Observer, he worked for Crain’s Communications as a Washington correspondent and operated his own business, publishing real estate newsletters. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards and has conducted several seminars at the national conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

He was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001, and was a member of the first class of ethics fellows at the Poynter Institute, also in 2001. Williams is a graduate of Radford University in Virginia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Morgan Jindrich, Online Advocacy and Outreach

Morgan Jindrich, currently serving on the Online Advocacy Team, joined the Consumers Union team in the fall of 2004 as the Strategic Resource Director (better known as the Director of HearUsNow.org) where she managed a project dedicated to helping to educate the public about the communications and media issues and helping to empower the public to make a difference in the marketplace.

In the summer of 2006, Morgan moved to Austin, TX and joined the Online Advocacy Team. Her goal is to connect people on the ground with each other in order to create positive change for consumers across the country.

Morgan is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls where she studied political science, Spanish and art.