Lisa Witter

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Lisa Witter is the co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them (Berrett-Koehler, 2008) and executive vice president and chief operating officer of Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications firm in the country.

Political and Communications Work

As the COO of Fenton, Witter heads the firm’s practice in women’s issues and global affairs for clients including Women for Women International, Global Fund for Women, The White House Project, the Women’s Funding Network, the Harvard School of Public Health, MoveOn.org, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the American Medical Association and the American Lung Association. She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org,^[1] an online brain trust of women experts to help close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. She is political and social commentator, published writer, blogger, and a frequent public speaker on the political, non-profit and philanthropic circuits. In 2004 she was a contestant on the Showtime reality show, “American Candidate.” She was honored as an outstanding activist and expert on women’s issues by Oxygen.com for her work on a national campaign against privatizating Social Security during the 2000 presidential election. She was also named a 'Rising Star' in 1997 by Washington State Democrats and co-founded the Institute for a Democratic Future and EMERGE: Women Leaders for a Democratic Future.^[2] She is on the board of directors for Climate Counts,^[3] the national advisory board for MomsRising.org^[4] and the communications advisory council for Women for Women International.

Book

The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them is a guide that offers social change organizations key recommendations for leveraging the untapped power of women for positive change through fundraising, advocacy and the ballot box. It has garnered positive reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Ode Magazine,^[5] the Cronicle of Philanthropy,^[6] and on Salon.com,^[7] BlogHer,^[8], and Feministing.^[9] Lisa Chen is the co-author.

Additional Writing

Witter's work has appeared in numerous print and online publications. Her op-ed "Unfetter Women's Intellect on Campaign Trail" for News Day^[10] was picked up and posted across the internet.^[11] Her work appears frequently in the Huffington Post^[12]. She has also been published in AlterNet^[13] and on the Anderson Copper 360 Blog.^[14]

Media Appearances

Witter appears regularly as a political analyst and social commentator on popular news and radio stations. She has recently been featured on MSNBC,^[15] Fox,^[16] and on NPR.^[17]

Notes

References

http://www.shespotbook.com/Front/aboutAuthor.aspx

http://www.fenton.com/pages/1_about/1_bios/2_newyork/lwitter.htm

External links

• http://www.fenton.com
• http://www.shesource.org
• http://www.shespotbook.com