Donna Rice Hughes has over 20 years experience in marketing, advertising, communications, public relations and government relations. Mrs. Hughes is the author of Kids Online: Protecting Your Children In Cyberspace. (Revell, September 1998) and has created her own Internet safety website at www.protectkids.com. In 1999, Mrs. Hughes received a Congressional appointment to the Child Online Protection Commission to examine technological solutions to protect children online. She is co-founder and principal of Phoenix Advisory Services which serves small and mid-sized companies in the technology, media and entertainment industries. She is currently working in an advisory role to create and launch FamilyClick.com as the premier safe Internet Service Provider and destination site for the entire family.
 
From 1994 until July of 1999, Mrs. Hughes served as Communications Director and then Vice President of Enough is Enough, a non-profit educational organization whose mission is make the Internet safe for children and families. Mrs. Hughes led Enough is Enough's efforts regarding the issue of online child safety and played a pioneering role in the national effort to make the Internet safe for children and families. While at Enough is Enough, Mrs. Hughes developed a three-pronged strategy that involves the public, the technology industry and law enforcement sharing the responsibility to protect children on the Internet. This approach has been adopted by many industry and government leaders.