Jennifer Carnig

Advisory Board

As Spitfire’s Chief Advocacy Officer, Jen Carnig leads the firm’s racial justice and legal advocacy client portfolio and the diversity, equity, and inclusion practice. She also runs Spitfire's New York City office. Ms. Carnig is a senior leader and an award-winning journalist, bringing her strategic vision and media expertise to deliver narrative-shifting and policy-changing results for her clients.

Ms. Carnig joined Spitfire following nearly a decade of service as the director of communications at the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York’s leading civil rights organization. Under her leadership, the NYCLU created change on issues including stop-and-frisk, solitary confinement, the rights of transgender kids, and education for undocumented youth.

As a journalist and advocate for working mothers and reproductive rights, Ms. Carnig went undercover while five months pregnant to expose the misleading and harmful tactics of crisis pregnancy centers. Her City Council testimony and New York Daily News op-ed were quoted in the decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals protecting New Yorkers from these deceptive and dangerous centers.

Ms. Carnig began her career as a religion reporter in the San Francisco Bay area before directing communications and media relations at Teach For America and the University of Chicago. She earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Chicago.