David Fenton
Chief Executive Officer
Named “one of the 100 most influential P.R. people of the 20th Century” by PR Week and the “Robin Hood of public relations” by The National Journal, David founded Fenton in 1982 to create public relations campaigns for the environment, public health, international development and human rights. Over more than three decades, he has pioneered the use of professional P.R. and advertising techniques by nonprofit public interest groups.
Lisa Witter
Partner, Chief Change Officer
Lisa is an experienced executive, social entrepreneur, communications strategist, writer, and commentator. As partner and Chief Change Officer of Fenton, the largest, global, social change communications firm, she leads the firm’s work in innovation and behavior change and co-leads the practices in women’s issues, health, violence prevention, philanthropy and global affairs. Witter is co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for the Changing the World and How to Reach Them and serves on numerous advisory boards.
Beth Kitzinger
Managing Director, New York
Beth is a passionate and experienced PR professional with nearly 20 years of agency, in-house and consulting experience. She has represented industry leaders across categories, creating and managing strategic communications programs, corporate responsibility programs and crisis plans. She is known in the PR industry as a dynamic team leader and skilled client manager with an outstanding record of driving long-term strategy while managing day-to-day client services and corporate/agency steering.
Jean-Louis Robadey
Managing Director, CA
Jean-Louis Robadey is a senior strategist and communicator. He leads programs, initiatives and teams that support organizations working in the public interest, with a particular focus on foundations, social enterprises and socially responsible businesses. As the Managing Director of Fenton's West Coast offices, Robadey oversees client and staff services and drives new business.
Elly Woolston
Managing Director, Europe
Elly was a founder of Proximity London, now part of the BBDO Omnicom Worldwide Group. With her partners, she built the business from 5 people to 350, and developed a worldwide network. As a passionate practitioner, she has extensive experience with big International brands and organizations, such as Unilever, WWF and Oxfam. Elly enjoys building business, solving problems and driving social change.
Joe Wagner
Managing Director, DC
Joe Wagner has more than 20 years of communications experience, designing and implementing integrated communications campaigns for advocacy organizations, companies, foundations, government, non-profits, trade associations and think tanks. As the Managing Director of the Washington, DC office, Joe brings a seasoned communications approach, having expertise in all aspects of strategic positioning, media relations, coalition building and stakeholder outreach. Joe’s expertise includes public affairs, issue management and brand management consulting.
David Richeson
Chief Digital Officer
David brings over 20 years of experience in business strategy, creative writing, technology, integrated marketing and social media to develop and execute 360-degree communications campaigns to drive action and advocacy for clients with digital as the core. He has led social media and digital campaign strategy for clients such as Gillette, Citibank, Unilever, Skype and CVS. He is a board member, instructor and student at The Institute for Hermetic Philosophy, and is the author of several stage plays and screenplays, as well as the book, 360 Degree Success.
Ira Arlook
Chief of Advocacy Campaigns
Ira Arlook is a lead communications strategist on a number of Fenton accounts, including MoveOn.org, the Iraq Policy Information Project, Win Without War, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
William Hamilton
Executive Vice President
A journalist, political activist and congressional lobbyist before joining Fenton in 1998, Bill brings a lifetime of strategic thinking to making sure our clients get what they need through smart messaging, advocacy, media outreach and paid advertising.
Susan McPherson
Senior Vice President/Director of Global Marketing
Susan is a serial connector, passionate cause marketer, writer and corporate responsibility expert. As senior vice president/director of global marketing, she drives visibility for Fenton and its clients.
Robert Pérez
Senior Vice President
Convinced that stories have the power to change the world, Robert develops branding and messaging strategies that utilize narratives, myths and protagonists to inspire action, strengthen support for a cause and transform people and organizations. When he’s not crafting stories, he can usually be found on an urban hike somewhere in San Francisco with his husband, Robert Francoeur.
Rosario Rivera
Accountant A/P
Molly McGovern
Office Manager
Nicolas Gonzalez
Executive Assistant
Nick came to Fenton to fight the good fight and help create actual change for the better. His passions lie in preserving wilderness, protecting endangered species, and fighting the agents of climate change. When he's not at work, he's reading about the Dodgers and planning his next vacation.
Nancy Chamberlin
Receptionist/AA
Jennifer Hahn
Senior Vice President
Message and mission have driven Jennifer Hahn’s 20-year career in public interest communications. Using her superpowers for good, she loves crafting strategies and telling compelling stories. She brings a caffeine- and passion-fueled energy to clients who fight the good fight.
Jen Hegarty
Account Executive
A trained anthropologist with a passion for helping individuals and organizations make a positive impact in the world, Jennifer has worked in a number of social change positions, first as a refugee family liaison at the International Rescue Committee, and later, as as a researcher at the United Nations. A traveler by heart, she’s backpacked through 26 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean.
Greg Wasserstrom
Senior Account Executive
Greg is a savvy strategist bringing deep experience in using digital to create movements. After leading online strategies for an art start-up and roaming the political blogosphere, Greg most recently acted as Obama for America’s Digital Director in New Hampshire, during which he used data-driven online tactics to re-elect the President.
George Metry
Network Administrator
Bridget Botelho
Account Coordinator
Bridget arrived at Fenton with an M.A. in International Studies from the University of San Francisco and over three years of public relations experience in both agency and nonprofit settings. She currently lives in the Inner Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, where she enjoys exploring Golden Gate Park, spending hours at Green Apple Books and eating a lot of dim sum.
Andrew Necola
IT Assistant
Andrew joins Fenton as a computer wiz applying his knowledge in the technology world pushing forward in applications and systems. Part of Fenton’s IT team, Andrew works effectively as an assistant with the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities.
Kitty Overton
Senior Strategic Content Producer
Kitty has built a career developing and producing persuasive media. What makes her happiest is connecting great creative messaging with innovative communications strategies and watching maximum impact happen. Her favorite words are "we can do that."
Steven Dodds
Chief Officer, Strategy and Insight
Steven believes in creating value from values; connecting brands with people around common ideas of what’s important in life. He has twenty years experience in communications and advertising and likes to use his insight to help brands build influence and grow. He is rarely happier than when riding a bike.
Joaquin Elizondo
Operations Manager
Joaquin Elizondo joins Fenton from a public affairs law firm in Oakland, California where he coordinated litigation matters for the labor and employment group in several landmark cases. From his experiences working on issues like civil rights, pension reform and medical marijuana, Joaquin brings a keen sense of project management to Fenton.
Meredith Fenton
Account Director
Between her knack for smart social change communications and her last name, it was predestined that Meredith Fenton should join the team as an account director. She brings a strong background in nonprofit communications, programs and media and is fiercely committed to social justice, good food and sparkly things.
Jeff Smith
Senior Vice President
Jeff creates the campaigns that get people and brands addicted to doing good. He is a purpose-driven marketer, merging master storytelling, strategic partnership and global impact.
Clark Nickell
Operations Assistant
Clark comes to Fenton with rockstar assistant skills and a penchant for knowing how to please. As a member of Fenton’s operations team, he provides direct support to senior staff, plans staff events and maintains administrative systems in the office, all while continuing to be a proud papercut survivor.
Richard Ledesma
Director of Operations
Richard's 15 plus years of experience is primarily in operations and project management in the nonprofit, marketing, real estate and hospitality industries. He currently heads the operations team in our Washington DC office and manages IT and benefits firm wide.
Sandy believes in the power of "Yes, And..." to change the world, bringing more than 25 years of communications strategy to the intersection of business and social good. An expert in sustainability and CSR, she takes a global approach to social and environmental progress. She spends as much time as she can hiking in forests, training for triathlons and learning something new every day.
Zachary Dominitz
Vice President
Zachary is a planet-friendly creative and strategic thinker with more than 15 years experience in communications and business development. He is fluent in sustainability, CSR, branding, marketing and PR and is accustomed to driving growth, developing partnerships and building engagement through digital and offline strategy and execution for brands, corporate cause campaigns, top-tier non profits, tech start-ups and social entrepreneurs.
Brandon Finn
Production Coordinator
Brandon is a Los Angeles native with a background in film and television production, and a strong desire to influence change and create videos for great causes worldwide.
Quincey Smith
Intern
After a year of PR experience helping corporations make money, Quincey quickly decided to return to the advocacy world. He has been involved with numerous progressive movements including LGBT equality campaigns and President Obama’s re-election. When not helping Fenton’s clients change the world, he can be found in Brooklyn watching MSNBC with his two cats.
Elke Dochtermann
Senior Vice President, Creative
Elke is the creative lead for the network who applies her over 20 years of experience working for global advertising agencies and passion for innovation to every project. When she's not working from one of the five offices, she's tromping around NYC hunting CHUDs.
Alyssa Singer
Account Coordinator
Alyssa can generally be found writing, tweeting, avidly consuming news or scheming on ways to help her clients change hearts and minds and get the public attention they need to change the world. Social and economic justice for all!
Kristen King
Account Coordinator
Kristen has knacks for media relations, writing, research and strategy. When she has free time, she enjoys basking in sunshine, immersing herself in musical theatre and dance, hanging out with cats, watching the Florida Gators win everything and searching for the very best New York-style cheesecake.
Jenn Lavelle
Administrative Assistant
Jenn Lavelle, a member of Fenton’s operations team, manages accounts payable for the Fenton team in California. She has a strong background in grassroots outreach, activist training, fundraising and all things administrative.
Kety Esquivel
Vice President, Digital
Kety leads the digital practice for Fenton’s Western region and comes to Fenton with nearly two decades of experience in the private and public sector. Her work has taken her to Latin America, Asia and Africa and when she is not working for global agencies she is planning her next trip down the Pacific Coast Highway or around the world.
Joshua Limbaugh
Art Director
Joshua brings 14 years of experience to Fenton in his continuing mission to seek out new opportunities for promoting social and environmental causes. He rejects fear and chooses love. If you use power to beat down your fellow man in the name of money, then he is coming after you.
Mike Vallebuona
Account Director, Digital
Mike is a marketing strategist with nearly a decade of experience managing digital and social media campaigns for top-tier global brands and nonprofit organizations. As a member of Fenton’s digital team, Mike helps clients tell their stories online in a way that gets people talking, clicking and taking action.
Pedro Morillas
Senior Account Executive
Pedro comes to Fenton from the nonprofit advocacy world, and brings more than seven years of experience running grassroots and legislative campaigns on a wide range of issues. He finds particular joy in thinking up ways of leveraging the media to make decision makers squirm, and framing important issues in a way that motivates the public to take action.
Violet Batcha
Account Assistant
Violet is a team player with a passion for human rights and a can-do attitude. She supports the development and implementation of media outreach strategies for Fenton's political and global issues teams.
Noreena Hertz
Chair
Noreena Hertz is a leading academic, thinker, communicator and campaigner. Considered by many as a "visionary," Hertz is the author of two best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, which warned of the dangers of unregulated markets and overly powerful corporations, and IOU: The Debt Threat, which predicted the 2008 financial crisis. Her books have been translated into 17 languages.
Sharon Goldtzvik
Senior Account Executive
Sharon brings communications strategy to the fight for economic and social justice. Her passion and experience working internationally with human rights, feminist and environmental organizations help her clients tell their stories and make change.
Jonathan Caleb-Landy
Senior Account Manager
Jonathan Caleb-Landy comes to Fenton with a background in advocacy, communications and international development. He specializes in media relations. Before joining Fenton, Caleb-Landy was a consultant at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), a non-partisan, independent, non-governmental organization where he worked on advocacy campaigns designed to promote and protect democracy and respect for human rights – primarily civil and political rights - in Cambodia.
Rossalyn Warren
Account Coordinator
Rossalyn's work revolves around media, new media and digital, with a background of working with media outlets, digital start-ups and nonprofits. Her expertise lies in digital media and her passion is human rights. As a British girl living in America, she misses yorkshire puddings.
Ellen Miller
Assistant Marketing Manager
Ellen comes to Fenton with a background in using media, technology and storytelling to create change and bolster social movements. Whether she's writing a new business proposal, promoting Fenton online or planning a party at the office, Ellen subscribes to Groucho Marx's life philosophy: "If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong."
Barrie Koegel
Vice President of Administration
Over the course of more than a decade at Fenton, Barrie Koegel has served two distinct roles. For the past six years, Koegel has overseen and streamlined financial and human resources for the New York office, helping colleagues manage budgets, contract and staffing decisions.
Iavor Ivanov
Vice President, Digital
Iavor ('ya-vor) helps organizations achieve their potential and goals by imagining the ideal brand experience and charting the course to get there. His super powers include: reading minds, creating opportunities and big picture painting.
Cheryl Damian
Senior Vice President
Cheryl leads the corporate responsibility work for Fenton. For over 15 years, she's worked with companies to figure out how to drive social change that makes sense for the issues and the business. When she's not having fun at work, she's having fun exploring the world.
Stephanie Rendon
Account Executive
Stephanie's experience working in the media and nonprofit sector has given her the tools needed to help her clients create positive social change. She consults on messaging, branding and social media strategy. She also organizes the best DC staff happy hours ever.
Kate Murphy
Account Executive
Driven by her passion for education, women’s rights and global development, Kate helps to build and grow movements at Fenton. Before joining Fenton, she lived in Cambodia teaching the world’s cutest kids English and soccer.
Kaitlin Swarts
Account Coordinator
Kaitlin credits a trip to Haiti at the age of 14 with impressing her commitment to help movers and shakers around the world craft compelling communications strategies that effect change. At Fenton, Kaitlin informs her clients' messaging, digital and media relations strategy through qualitative research and analysis.
Giovanna Frank-Vitale
Senior Account Executive
Giovanna is a media relations expert and political junkie whose background is in health policy, electoral campaigns and nonprofit public relations. She is a writer who is conflicted about the Oxford comma and watches possibly too much reality TV.
Jessica Scadron
Account Director
Jessica brings more than a decade of experience planning and executing strategic communication campaigns for nonprofits and do-gooder for-profits. When she's not designing a media relations campaign or making her clients' messages sing in snazzy design collateral, she's exploring the mysterious world of beekeeping.
Jamie Joyce
Vice President, Digital
Jamie is the digital lead in the New York office who uses his 15 years of web marketing experience (Lycos or Alta Vista, anyone?) in the for-profit, nonprofit, and agency spaces to create kickass campaigns for clients such as Warner Bros., Save the Children and Oxfam America. And when he's not making waves on the internets, he's catching them in Long Beach or Montauk.
Ashlee Tran
Account Executive
Ashlee is an intellectually curious communications strategist with a penchant for all things digital. Bringing experience in issue advocacy, political campaigning and online movement building, Ashlee works to help Fenton's clients more effectively and efficiently accelerate progress. She hopes to one day lead an online campaign that uses cat memes for good.
Victor Neufeld
Executive Producer
Victor Neufeld is an award-winning executive producer with a 25+-year career of success driving production for leading informational television broadcasts and news magazines such as “20/20,” Paula Zahn Tonight,” “The Early Show” and “World News Tonight.” Neufeld is recognized for building “20/20” into major broadcast institution for ABC on Friday nights. Neufeld is the winner of dozens of George Foster Peabody, Emmy, Christopher and Gracie Awards.
Vaishalee Raja
Account Director
Vaishalee brings more than a decade of experience specializing in media relations, advocacy and strategic communications for high-stakes issue campaigns and social movements. When not securing story placements in major national and California news outlets, Vaishalee desperately tries to get her baby daughter to sleep for more than two hours at a time.
Charlie Keenan
Administration and Research Assistant
Charlie is an ever-inquisitive research assistant who comes to Fenton with a background in physics. He has brought the discipline from this to London where, alongside assimilating data on anything and everything, he helps ensure that the administrative side of the office runs harmoniously.
Jeremy Morgan
Technical Producer
Jeremy's 10-year career reveals his passions for technology and progressive issues, which he’s privileged to merge as the technical lead for Fenton's digital practice. As a proud nonprofit digital nerd, he specializes in developing and applying technological tools to further social change.
Eric Antebi
Senior Vice President
Eric is one-third strategy, one-third creativity, and two-thirds grit. He spends his days (and sometimes nights) helping clients like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation solve big social problems with unconventional solutions. He lives on an island, is passionate about Tee Ball and writes taglines in his spare time.
Sarah Christiano
Intern
Melissa Daar Carvajal
Vice President
Melissa offers communications expertise built over a twenty-year career. She combines advocacy and policy experience with a creative brain inspired to tackle branding and messaging conundrums, campaign strategy and communications planning. In her spare time, Melissa helps out at her sons’ school, teaches Pilates and dances Cuban.
Leslie Ofori
Intern
Leslie Ofori came to Fenton with a passion for social change, and provides support for clients in the political, environmental and digital space. Prior to joining Fenton, she interned at Brand Solutions Group, where she helped to increase the visibility of local companies. She also spent time at America's Promise Alliance where she assisted with education advocacy.
Leslie Lipsick
Senior Account Executive
Leslie loves diving deep into her clients’ issues, which means she can produce meaningful research, strong media angles and smart, nuanced messages. She also has a creative and humorous side, and isn’t afraid to go into a brainstorm with puns a-blazing.
Paul Hernandez
Vice President
Paul leads Fenton’s Los Angeles office and applies his more than sixteen years of experience in public affairs and strategic communications to successfully help organizations navigate through complex political environments at the state and local levels to impact a wide array of policy issues. And when he is not acting as a strategist, Paul can also point you to the best restaurants and bars throughout L.A.
Laura Deeb
Account Director
Laura has a passion for public health issues and has devoted her career to creating sustainable social change. When Laura is not working to mobilize people to action through strategic communications and advocacy, she is likely out exploring with her camera and enjoying dessert.
Shineh Rhee
Account Executive
Shineh loves working with a diverse range of clients to drive social change through strategic communications campaigns, messaging, capacity-building and community organizing. In her free time, she can be found exploring the many unique neighborhoods of LA while hunting for unusual new foods.
Laura Vigilante
Intern
Laura is a junior at Columbia University studying English and Comparative Literature. She is a member of Fenton's marketing team and has a strong passion for writing, media and social justice issues. Outside of Fenton, Laura works on campaigns for cause-driven documentary films.
Jo Gibbons
Chief Officer, Campaigning and Public Affairs
Kelly Osmundson
Senior Account Executive
Kelly joined Fenton with a background in labor and political organizing, but she now specializes in media relations and messaging. When she is not fighting the good fight, Kelly enjoys reading graphic novels and talking about the San Francisco Giants.
Alec Saslow
Senior Account Executive
Alec manages and implements effective communications and media relations strategies from our D.C. office for a wide range of clients and issues, including health care, education and immigration policy. Prior to joining Fenton, Alec taught English to university students in Ecuador and Peru.
Nora Merecicky
Designer
Nora has spent her career designing for nonprofits, foundations and individuals doing social good. When she's not geeking out on typefaces and data visualization in Fenton's San Francisco office, she's likely to be found playing a board game, singing in her band or at the theatre.
Debayani Kar
Account Director
Debayani has a passion for amplifying the voices of individuals and communities who otherwise do not get heard in the public debate. For the last decade, she has designed communications and advocacy strategies to move the needle on public health, economic issues and racial justice, both in the US and abroad.
Caroline Perez
Director of Operations
Caroline Perez joined Fenton six years ago after a substitute teaching stint taught her that she prefers bossing adults around instead of children. Perez is a key member of the operations team assisting account staff manage client budgets and contracts. She earned a B.A. in politics and a minor in economics at Saint Mary's College of California. She lives in Oakland and in her free time enjoys cheeseburgers, karaoke and bad television.
Myrna Chua-Miguel
Accounting Assistant
Myrna Chua-Miguel, a member of Fenton’s operations team, is responsible for managing accounts receivable and preparing reports. She has experience managing a wide variety of accounting information systems and is committed to operational efficiencies that increase accuracy and drive productivity.
Elizabeth Brooks
Chief Financial Officer
Elizabeth Lewis Brooks has more than a decade of experience working with nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad. She has worked with homeless parolees at a residential substance abuse facility in San Francisco and with international students and scholars in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
James Marcus
Chief Business Officer
Bio forthcoming...