Lisa Chen
Senior Vice President, New York
Lisa Chen has more than 14 years’ experience in public interest communications on a broad range of issues ranging from education and health to human rights. At Fenton she specializes in strategy and messaging. Her current and past clients include The New York Academy of Medicine, the Foundation for Child Development, EngenderHealth, the Harvard School of Public Health and Physicians for Human Rights.
Before joining Fenton, Chen was a senior account manager at the nonprofit group Communication Works, where she led campaigns on affirmative action, gun violence prevention, affordable housing and public health. Her work with advocates helped increase federal funding for research into the environmental causes of breast cancer and led to improvements in state-funded breast cancer treatment for low-income women in California. A former staff writer for the San Jose Mercury News, she is the co-author with Lisa Witter of the book The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She was born in Taiwan and has a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.
