Parker Blackman, Fenton’s Deputy Managing Director and the Managing Director of Fenton’s San Francisco office, was the lead communications strategist on two high-profile national campaigns that have helped reshape and revitalize the debate on fuel efficiency and global warming through new frameworks and draw new stakeholders to an issue that had been narrowly viewed as an “environmental” concern. For the Evangelical Environmental Network’s “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign, Blackman was instrumental in leveraging a modest campaign budget into $3 million to $4 million worth of free media, including 1,900 print stories and 500 broadcast hits, including features on “World News Tonight With Peter Jennings” and “Good Morning America.” His strategic consulting for Arianna Huffington’s Detroit Project, which made the controversial link between gas-guzzling SUVs and the indirect financing of terrorists, significantly raised the temperature of the debate, landing on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and every major network and cable news show. The efforts resulted in 14,000 action letters to Detroit automakers and 6 million hits to the Detroit Project’s Web site.

Blackman has led public relations for the National Environmental Trust’s “Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass” campaign and served as press secretary for Arianna Huffington’s run for governor of California and worked during 2003 with Robert Kennedy Jr. as communications advisor. Current clients include the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Civic Ventures, and the Campaign for College Opportunity. As the former executive director of Washington Public Interest Research Group, he led a campaign that successfully blocked the construction of a major oil pipeline and created new accident prevention and enforcement standards for all existing pipelines in the state. He is the former director of the PIRG National Fellowship Program and opened PIRG’s first Intermountain West field office serving the western United States. A former organizer for Green Corps, Blackman received a B.A. in U.S. history from Stanford University.