Claude Marks is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Freedom Archives, leading its work since its establishment in 1999. He is a former US-held political prisoner and lifelong activist. He was a documentary producer, reporter and Production Director at KPFA-FM in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has been involved in all of the audio and video productions of the Archives and has continued his activism, especially in support of political prisoners.