Fenton Agency
Fenton Agency
  • Our Work
  • Experts
  • Issues
  • Services
  • Contact Us
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • Careers

Search Bar

1

Paul Hernandez

Chief Strategy Officer | LA

Expert

Paul is best known as a communications and public affairs strategist. He has over 20 years of experience working to engage and influence policymakers and other decision-makers on key issues ranging from health care to racial equity to homelessness to early childhood education.

From strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, campaign management to message development, Paul has acted as a consigliere to several prominent funders throughout the country.

He has been a senior consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in its efforts to improve the health, living conditions and economic security for children and families living in New Mexico, and to improving public schools in Michigan. He acted as a lead communications strategist for a collaborative of the nation’s most prominent foundations, Executives’ Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color, including coordination with President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative. He partnered with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to plan a campaign to engage California’s gubernatorial candidates to support early childhood development. And was a longtime senior policy advisor to the Blue Shield of California Foundation in its efforts to support the successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California.

He has also served as a trusted advisor to public and nonprofit sector organizations such as the Advancement Project, Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office, and Oakland Unified School District.

Prior to joining Fenton, Paul spent more than eight years with The California Endowment, the state’s largest private health foundation. He led efforts to build alliances and generate support for the foundation’s health priorities and was a key strategist in crafting and implementing a multi-million-dollar campaign to advance statewide health reform in 2007.

He is also a veteran of local government and politics, having served as a legislative deputy to Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, where he acted as the Supervisor’s chief advisor on law enforcement, public safety and transportation issues.

Outside of the office, Paul serves on the Boards of the Liberty Hill Foundation and Community Health Councils and is a proud alumnus of U.C. Berkeley and Coro Southern California. And he can also point you to the best restaurants and cocktail bars in Los Angeles.

Additional Leadership

James Marcus

Chairman/Owner | NY

Valarie De La Garza

CEO | Nationwide

Jennifer Hahn

Chief Client Officer | NY

Joe Wagner

Chief of Political Advocacy | DC

Erik Olvera

Chief of Issue Advocacy | NY

Shakirah Hill Taylor

Chief Digital Officer | DC

Karla Wagner

Chief People Officer | NY

Daria Hall

Executive Vice President | DC

Rachel Henderson

Executive Vice President, CSG | DC

Adam Robles

Senior Vice President, CSG | LA

Ricardo Cárdenas

Senior Vice President, Creative Director | LA

Tom Blake

Senior Vice President, Digital | NY

Adam Greenfield

Vice President, New Business Development and Marketing | LA

Aileen Andres

Vice President, Digital | DC

Ambar Mentor-Truppa

Vice President | IL

André Ory

Vice President | DC

Danielle Bastow

Vice President, Operations and Planning | NY

Danielle Schlanger

Vice President | NY

Donté Donald

Vice President | NY

Jania Palacios-Azami

Vice President | LA

Johnson Huang

Controller | NY

Kamali Burke

Vice President | NY

Katherine Brandon

Vice President | DC

Kathryn Boren

Vice President | LA

Kimaya Dixit

Vice President, CSG | DC

Mercy Albaran

Vice President | SF

Mia Logan

Vice President, Digital | DC

Ujala Sehgal

Vice President | NY

Susannah Rosenblatt

Vice President, CSG | DC

Back to all staff

Next Up

History

Next Up

Our Work
  • Our Work
  • Blog
  • Experts
  • History
  • Clients + Issues
  • Services
  • Home
  • Careers
  • Resources

Passionate about social change?

Join our global team of strategists.

Careers

New York

630 Ninth Ave.,
Suite 910
New York, NY 10036

212.584.5000

Map It

California

1701 South Figueroa
Suite 1309
Los Angeles, CA 90015

213.568.6000

Map It
Fenton 2023

Email us!