40 Under Forty Awards 2024
Steve Iannazzi | 39
Director of Government Affairs, Cox Communications Inc.
What is the biggest challenge currently facing your industry and how are you responding to it? There’s a heightened focus on our industry as America focuses efforts on connecting every community to robust broadband, which includes the distribution of more than $40 billion in federal funds. We’re looking for ways to partner with the states to ensure that these valuable one-time federal funds are spent wisely to promote digital equity.
What is the best advice you have ever received? More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
What was your first job? Working after school and on weekends at my cousin’s fish market, Captain’s Catch in North Providence.
What moment changed your life more than any other? An R.I. Statehouse internship with the Senate Labor Committee initially led to me joining the Senate staff as a committee clerk.
What was your last streaming or cable binge watch? “The Bear.”
What is your preferred source for national news? X, formerly Twitter.