Jennifer Carnig

Advisory Board

Jen Carnig leads Spitfire’s day-to-day operations and guides implementation of the firm’s overall strategy and vision for a future born from the struggle for freedom and justice. She is one of the nation’s leading strategists on the issues of policing and police accountability, community safety and the fight to protect our rights and humanity in the face of new technologies like artificial intelligence. A trusted advisor to leading social change activists, philanthropies looking to live their missions and mission-driven organizations, Jen has more than 20 years of experience leading major campaigns and seeding movements. An award-winning journalist, she previously led communications at the New York Civil Liberties Union for a decade. At Spitfire, Jen takes a particular joy in training the next generation of progressive communicators and is dedicated to creating a space where diverse leaders can hone the skills they need to lead the movements of tomorrow. 

Jen specializes in leading some of Spitfire’s most difficult and high-stakes projects. She routinely supports organizations with serious communications challenges such as securing justice for the families of those murdered by police, helping companies build will to implement major structural changes in the interest of racial and environmental justice and coaching emerging leaders and whole fields to become powerful changemakers. Jen is known for providing personal counsel and coaching to individual justice seekers facing national and international scrutiny. She has trained and advised returning citizens, MacArthur Fellows, national movement leaders and the heads of some of the most targeted progressive companies so they can keep control of their most valuable asset – their stories.