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.
In addition to his work at Fenton, Arlook serves as the executive director of New Economy Communications (NEC), which he founded in 1998 with former congressman Tom Andrews to encourage broad coverage and greater public understanding of domestic and international economic issues and their relationship to human rights. At NEC, he has helped attract the media's attention to the work of the National Labor Committee, United Students Against Sweatshops, the Worker Rights Consortium and other anti-sweatshop organizations for their campaigns targeting Kathie Lee Gifford, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Nike and other major apparel marketers. He has helped the International Labor Rights Fund get significant publicity for its federal lawsuits against Unocal, ExxonMobil, Coca-Cola and other companies for their complicity in extreme human rights violations abroad. Arlook has also helped the D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research gain major media attention for its work on social security, Medicare, drug pricing, tax and budget policy and international trade and finance.
Before joining Fenton, Arlook worked in the nonprofit sector for more than two decades, with a strong emphasis on issues of social and economic justice. He was one of the founders and served as executive director of Citizen Action and of the Ohio Public Interest Campaign.