Gordon Freedman

Gordon Freedman is an American education technologist, former film and television producer, investigative journalist and Congressional investigator. He is currently the president, board member and founder of the National Laboratory for Education Transformation, www.NLET.org, a research and development nonprofit based in California that advocates for key transformations in workforce and education-to-employment, including support for www.GoEducate.com, and in prison education with www.Necleos.com. NLET is also contributing to a rapidly emerging area in healthcare and biomed data focusing on organizing mitochondria researchers and clinicians globally through the Mitochondria World portal, www.mitoworld.org.

Freedman began his career as an investigator in Washington, DC serving on Capitol Hill from 1973-1979, where he served on Congressional investigations for the Watergate Committee (Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign), United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service (Merit System Abuse), and the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (Fraser Committee, Koreagate). Freedman is the creator and proprietor of www.watergate.org, a website commemorating the work of the Watergate Committee.

Freedman later became a journalist, first as a stringer for the Washington Post, then as a Washington Correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and then as a producer for ABC 20/20 and Nightline.

Freedman later moved to Los Angeles and worked in the entertainment industry on fact-based dramas and documentaries. Over the course of his career, he produced a number of television films, miniseries and series including To Heal a Nation (1988), Baby M (1988) and the Fox series DEA (1990). Freedman also produced three feature films, Money for Nothing (John Cusak, 1999), To Walk with Lions (Richard Harris, 1999) and A Brief History of Time (1991). Freedman is also an author of non-fiction political books, including Gifts of Deceit (1980) and Winter of Fire (1990).

Since the 1990s, Freedman transitioned into education policy, innovation and education technology. He was part of the start-up of the California State University, Monterey Bay and was the vice president of the global education strategy at Blackboard Inc., before founding the National Laboratory for Education Transformation, a research and development nonprofit, www.NLET.org, in 2011 where he continues to serve on the board. Freedman is currently the strategic advisor for the education-to-employment startup internet web portal, GoEducate, Inc., www.GoEducate.com.