Lisa Witter is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Fenton Communication, the largest public interest communications firm in the country. She heads the firm's practice in women's issues and global affairs for clients including the Women for Women International, MoveOn.org, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, American Medical Association, American Lung Association and many others. She is a co-founder of award-winning SheSource.org, an online brain trust of women experts to help close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. She is a political commentator, a seasoned public speaker on the political, nonprofit and philanthropic circuits. In 2004, she was a contestant on the Showtime reality show, American Candidate. Lisa Chen, a senior vice president at Fenton Communications, is the firm's head editor and writer and develops creative messaging for clients across a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from public health to education reform. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other leading dailies. She has been doing public interest communications for the past 10 years for clients including the National Urban League, the Breast Cancer Fund, the New York Academy of Science, Physicians for Human Rights, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. Witter and Chen live in New York City.
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