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 Lisa Witter is an experienced for-profit executive, social entrepreneur, communications strategist, author, blogger and social commentator with expertise in the nonprofit sector, philanthropy, politics, women's issues, social marketing, new media, international affairs, corporate social responsibility, and leveraging pop culture for social change. In 2010 she was named one of the 197 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.
As Partner and Chief Change Officer of FENTON, the largest public interest communications firm in the country, she heads the firm's work in innovation and the practices in women's issues and global affairs for clients including Women for Women International, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, MoveOn.org, International Criminal Court, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Stonyfield Yogurt and many others. At FENTON, Witter has led many of the firm's marquee client victories, including stopping the broadcast of hard liquor ads on network television, the creation of the national Amber Alert system for missing children, and pioneering the first violent death reporting system in the U.S.
Witter is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org, an online brain trust of women experts to help close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. She was honored as an outstanding activist and expert on women's issues by Oxygen.com for her work on a national campaign against privatizing Social Security during the 2000 presidential election. She has also co-founded two programs to encourage people to run for political office: Emerge and the Institute for a Democratic Future.
Witter is the co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She has appeared on and been quoted in numerous national and local news outlets including NPR, MSNBC, CBS, Fox Newsday, the Seattle Times, CNN.com and others.
In 2004, Lisa was a contestant on the Showtime reality show, "American Candidate." Witter is co-author with Lisa Chen of "The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them."
Witter sits on numerous advisory boards and expert panels including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, ClimateCounts.org, The Institute of Medicine, DailyFeats.com, and the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Center for Philanthropy at Indiana University. She co-anchors the Women and Girls Action Network for the Clinton Global Initiative and is a frequent public speaker on philanthropy, communications and social change at events such as the Skoll World Forum, Pop!Tech, and TEDWomen.
Witter, a native of Washington State, lives in Brooklyn with her husband Christoph Brem and two sons. She studied at the University of California Santa Cruz, the University of Washington and the Universita di Padova, Italia.
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