Lisa Falconer comes to Spitfire with nearly a decade of experience developing strategic communications plans for non-profits and public sector clients.

At Spitfire, Lisa provides communications guidance, planning, and execution on a wide range of issues, from health policy and media rights and access to sustainable seafood and education reform. Lisa’s clients include The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) and the ONE campaign.

Prior to joining Spitfire, Lisa was a senior consultant at BearingPoint, where she worked in the public service sector’s change management group. In this role, Lisa developed and led large-scale strategic communications efforts at a variety of federal government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Patent and Trademark Office and the National Archives.

Before working at BearingPoint, Lisa served as the communications coordinator for the International City Management Association’s (ICMA) International Division. During her time at ICMA, she transformed the content and design of the organization’s Web site, quadrupled the average monthly media coverage of ICMA International’s development activities, and conducted communications and outreach training sessions that taught employees about media pitching and donor, partner and congressional outreach.

During graduate school, Lisa served as the Assistant Director for American University’s Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute, coordinating various intensive workshops that helped students to develop their public affairs skills in fields such as communications, grassroots advocacy, and congressional outreach and media campaigns.

Lisa also worked as an intern at both M+R Strategic Services and the Dewey Square Group, where she assisted in the execution of public affairs strategies for a number of high profile non-profit and commercial clients.

Lisa holds a master’s degree in public administration and a B.A. in political science and public communication from American University.