Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon

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KATHARINE SAUNDERS leads Verizon's team responsible for the development and implementation of regulatory strategy and advocacy to advance Verizon’s nationwide broadband plans, including issues relating to broadband deployment funding, network transition, and transformation issues. She also has extensive experience representing the company in regulatory matters before the FCC, other federal agencies, and in the courts, and in private practice with trial experience in both intellectual property and civil cases.  Katharine is active in pro bono, both as an appointed Guardian ad Litem in the D.C. courts, and on several non-profit boards, including as the current President of the Board of Woolly Mammoth Theatre.