Our Advisors - Front Page Live

The Front Page Live team is supported by accomplished advisors with decades of experience in climate, communications, business and politics.

JOE ROMM
Founder and Board of Directors

Joseph Romm is founder and majority shareholder as well as former-CEO and Editor-in-Chief of FrontPageLive.com. His latest book is “How to Go Viral and Reach Millions,” and CNN host Van Jones describes Joe as “the communicator’s communicator.” Joe is Founding Editor of ClimateProgress.org, which NY Times columnist Tom Friedman called “the indispensable blog.” In 1997, Joe served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he oversaw 1 billion dollars in R&D and deployment of clean energy technologies. In 2009, Time magazine named him one of its “Heroes of the Environment,” and Rolling Stone named him to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America.” Joe holds a PhD in physics from M.I.T. and is the author of 10 books on climate change, clean energy, and communications.

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LAURA DAWN
Senior Advisor

Laura Dawn is writer, director, strategist, and producer of social justice media and campaigns with over 500 million online views of her work. Laura was the co-creator of Bush in 30 Seconds (2013), the first user generated political ad campaign, a groundbreaking campaign now taught in advertising & communications textbooks across the world. As the former founding Cultural & Creative Director of MoveOn.org (2004 – 2012) and current Founder and Chief Creative of award winning cultural strategy agency ART NOT WAR, Laura has spent the last 17 years directing ground breaking cultural campaigns and making high impact media. She has written & directed over 200 online videos and mini-docs, and in the past decade served as producer and creative director for over 500 media pieces and produced 2 full length documentaries. Her direct content has reached over 1 billion people worldwide. She has extensive experience in digital strategy, producing over 1 billion dollars of earned media for social justice campaigns. Laura is also the founder of feminist media group Humanity for Progress and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Climate Mobilization, The Hometown Project, and Swayable. Laura is Founder of the Ethical Engine, a new platform that seeks to nudge the public towards more progressive positions by targeted narrowcasting at scale, powered by personalized and emotionally aligned creative.

Our Advisors

DAVID FENTON
Senior Advisor

David Fenton is the Chairman of Fenton. He founded the agency in 1982 to create communications campaigns for the environment, public health and human rights.

David also leads the agency’s Energy and Climate practice, while also contributing to other NGO, foundation, government and corporate responsibility clients.

The National Journal called David “the Robin Hood of public relations,” while PR Week named him “one of the 100 most influential P.R. people.” Some of his best-known campaigns include aiding the rise of MoveOn.org, stimulating the rise of organic food sales, a decade representing Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, saving swordfish from extinction with a coalition of top chefs, running Yoko Ono’s campaign which successfully stopped fracking in New York State, working with Al Gore and the United Nations on climate change, public health campaigns against tobacco and toxic chemicals, and many others.

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KIKI SOMERVILLE
Senior Advisor for Diversity and Inclusion

Kiki Somerville is the Founder of Fearless Artist Media and The Fearless Artist Pop Up Gallery, one of the most popular pop up art exhibitions in the country.

Before disrupting the art establishment with TFAPOPUP, Kiki Somerville, an entertainment industry veteran, speaker, and author with 20 years of media experience worked in the business and legal affairs departments of major companies such as VIACOM/MTV Networks, Sony BMG, Austin Nichols.

Kiki attended the Holton Arms School, where she serves as an organizer of the Holton Arms Black Alumni Association. She is a graduate of The College of William and Mary with a degree in Sociology, and earned her Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law.

Passionate about exploring the social impact of the intersection of art, public policy, and community engagement, Kiki is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art in Social Practice at George Washington University.

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JOHN EATON
Senior Advisor

John Eaton is a marketing technology entrepreneur who has spent over a decade helping the global enterprise understand consumers and markets through innovations in data, process and analytics. He has worked at big companies, started a couple of his own, and is generally driven by cool new tech, huge data sets and colorful, interactive dashboards. John’s early expertise in digital technologies was developed as manager and producer in the entertainment industry where he participated in Grammy and MTV award-winning global releases. Recently John has had the good fortune to work at Art Not War taking on the big bad guys and looking for ways to improve progressive digital communications practices.

Previous Executive experience includes senior vice-president at Ipsos, co-founder and President of SaaS influence and advocacy management platform SocialChorus, co-Founder and CEO of social/digital marketing services agency YouCast which provided digital strategy, creative, analytics and media optimization across healthcare, insurance, CPG, philanthropy, retail and entertainment sectors. John’s early expertise in digital technologies was developed as manager and producer in the entertainment industry for such artists as P Diddy, Anthrax, David Bowie, and Foo Fighters where he participated in Grammy and MTV award-winning global releases.