“In today's political climate we can't afford to choose between activists and persuadables. We need both.

“My mission is to find that sweet spot between heart and mind, passion and intellect.”

— Art Silverman

Art Silverman worked widely as a writer, creative director and media strategist in Washington, DC for more than three decades, specializing in progressive public-policy solutions to hot-button issues.

Silverman retired in 2022 but continues to provide counsel as a consultant. He also publishes the occasional Substack newsletter realityreport.us.

Art’s lengthy client list included the American Medical Association, AFSCME, Ben & Jerry’s, the CDC, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MoveOn.org, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NORML, and George Soros.

Silverman won the Silver Anvil Award twice and the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest once. He named both a flavor of Ben and Jerry’s [“Totally Nuts”] and an episode of Law and Order [“Caviar Emptor”].

Art’s work is prominently featured in the business bestseller “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.”

Before turning to consulting in 2005, he served as senior vice president and creative director at Fenton and as the founding communications director at CSPI.

Prior to that, Silverman had a 17-year career in San Francisco as a city council aide, mayoral press secretary, newspaper editor, radio reporter, TV pundit and event producer.

He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and studied journalism and political science at Ohio University.