IRA ARLOOK
	MANAGING DIRECTOR, DC OFFICE

Managing Director Ira Arlook also serves as the executive director of New Economy Communications (NEC), which he founded in 1998 with former Congressman Tom Andrews to encourage broad coverage and greater public understanding of domestic and international economic issues and their relationship to human rights.

At NEC, he has helped attract the media's attention to the work of anti-sweatshop organizations including the National Labor Committee, Worker Rights Consortium and United Students Against Sweatshops in their campaigns targeting Kathie Lee Gifford, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Nike and other major apparel marketers. He has helped the International Labor Rights Fund gain attention to its federal lawsuits against companies including Unocal, ExxonMobil and Coca Cola for complicity in extreme human rights violations abroad. Arlook has also helped the DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research gain major media attention for their work on social security, Medicare, drug pricing, tax and budget policy and international trade and finance. At Fenton, he is a lead communications strategist on a number of accounts including MoveOn.org, Iraq Policy Information Project, Win Without War, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Prior to Fenton, he worked for over two decades in the non-profit sector, with strong emphasis on issues of social and economic justice. He was one of the founders and served as executive director of Citizen Action and of the Ohio Public Interest Campaign.