Parker Blackman
Chief Operating Officer
Parker Blackman has been working in public interest communications, advocacy and organizational development for nearly 20 years. At Fenton, he has led branding, integrated communications strategy and planning for a range of clients including Human Rights Watch, The Wikimedia Foundation, First 5 LA, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Playworks. He has consulted for movement leaders including Arianna Huffington and Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Prior to Fenton, Blackman spent 10 years as a leader in environmental and grassroots advocacy. He opened U.S. PIRG’s first Intermountain West office. As its field director, he was instrumental in establishing UpNET, galvanizing Utah’s labor, women’s, LGBT, and environmental leaders community to support a united, progressive agenda.
As executive director of the Washington Public Interest Research Group, he successfully devised and executed a campaign to defeat a Texaco-sponsored plan to build a new, 231 mile oil pipeline across the state and won new, tougher regulations on existing oil and gas pipelines within the state. He also conceptualized and ran PIRG’s National Fellowship Program, overseeing the recruitment, training and management of 30 recent college graduates each year — a model for the national program that continues today. Blackman grew up on the beaches of Santa Monica, California. He credits the years he lived abroad with his family and attending the International School of Paris for cultivating his love for different cultures, languages and alternate perspectives on the world.
