Jennie Blackton

Jennie Blackton started her career acting on Broadway when she was a teenager, and progressed to hosting talk-shows on radio and TV both in New York City and Los Angeles. Not wishing to continue to look good at 7am five days a week, she decided to be on the other side of the camera and began writing sitcoms. She wrote for many years, from “One Day at a Time” to “Roseanne.” When she didn’t feel funny anymore she became a Vice President of several movie studios.

She got started in political communication because she was frustrated when candidates that she supported seemed unable to utter a straight honest sentence that would make an audience listen, with the emphasis on listen. She started to teach candidates in how to make an audience sit up, listen and applaud at the end of a speech and discovered that delivering a solid message + stump speech and writing sitcoms for a critical audience utilize the same skills. She combined her experience in all media into one interactive workshop and found her soul work in the process.

In the last 12 years, she has worked in all kinds of campaigns, specializing in local, city and state elections – where the real people are. She has also worked outside the United States on campaigns in countries as diverse as Malawi, Haiti and Greece, where she worked with George Papandreou, candidate for Prime Minister. Currently, she develops candidates for Progressive Majority, an organization that finds and elects progressive candidates to state and local offices.