Nora Benavidez

Ben is a co‑founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. He, along with Jerry, opened the first Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, and helped build the company’s early history.

Nora Benavidez is the Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice & Civil Rights at Free Press. She is a civil‑rights and free‑speech attorney, litigator, and legal strategist with over a decade of experience at the intersection of law, technology, and democracy. Nora has represented clients on First Amendment, protest, and voting‑rights issues, led PEN A...