Minority Media and Telecommunications Council hires Nicol Turner-Lee, ex-National Association...

Minority Media and Telecommunications Council hires Nicol Turner-Lee, ex-National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications, as vice president-chief research and policy officer, to start new research and policy arm to advance U.S. leadership on telecom issues and direct MMTC’s Telecom and Internet Policy Taskforce, of which MMTC Senior Attorney Latoya Livingston, who was the task force’s interim director, will continue to be assistant director … Winston & Strawn adds from Finnegan lawyers who litigate technology patent cases before the International Trade Commission, as partners in law firm’s intellectual property practice: John Alison, Steven Anzalone, Paul Goulet and Thomas Jarvis … Disney promotes Paul Pastor to senior vice president-strategy and consumer analytics, Disney/ABC Television Group … Beasley Broadcast Group hires Stacey Sedbrook, ex-Wicked Local-Gatehouse Media Solutions New England, as vice president-digital, effective Sept. 1 … Internet Society elects Robert Hinden, Check Point Software, chairman.