Jenifer Fernandez Ancona

Senior Director of Membership & Communications

Jenifer Fernandez Ancona joined our staff in April 2011 as Senior Director of Membership & Communications, and she comes to WDN with a wide range of experience in communications, donor organizing, strategy development, grassroots organizing, and multi-racial coalition building.

She has worked most recently as Director of Strategic Communications at Citizen Engagement Laboratory, where she helped to launch and grow progressive online organizing initiatives focused on communities of color, including Presente.org and ColorOfChange.org.

Previously, Jenifer served as a Senior Advisor to Steve Phillips and our own WDN member Susan Sandler, as a consultant to the Democracy Alliance, as a top legislative aide in the California State Assembly, and as a news reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Crafting clear communications around a new progressive economic narrative has been a major focus, and her work has included consulting to the Roosevelt Institute, Netroots Nation and National People’s Action.

In her role at WDN, Jenifer is responsible for helping to grow and strengthen the membership, as well as significantly raising the profile of WDN and our work in the media and throughout the progressive movement.