Racial Justice & DEI

Area Experts

• Daria Hall Executive Vice President
  Daria Hall Executive Vice President

  Daria L. Hall (she/her/hers) is an Executive Vice President in the Washington, D.C. office of Fenton. Bringing more than 15 years of experience to her position, Daria works collaboratively with senior leadership across the firm, plays a pivotal role in new business activities and provides day-to-day oversight of accounts as well as high-level strategic counsel to Fenton clients.

  • Issue Advocacy
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Amanda Ebrahim Account Director
  Amanda Ebrahim Account Director

  Amanda Ebrahim is an account director at Fenton where she implements communication strategies to advance racial justice, equity and inclusion. She supports clients on issues ranging from child and family well-being, education equity, and economic policy. Amanda’s clients include leading foundations such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kresge Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation to advocacy organizations such as National League of Cities, Center for Popular Democracy and Color of Change to community-based organizations including Locus, Food Bank For New York City and Educational Alliance.

  Amanda is a media expert with a successful track record of garnering national and local media attention on issues that deeply impact low-income communities and communities of color. She uses her expertise to support clients with media strategy, storytelling, messaging, narrative development, and thought leadership.

  Amanda is a native New Yorker and a proud New York public school graduate. She holds a master’s degree in strategic communications and a bachelor's degree in broadcasting and mass communications from SUNY Oswego. Amanda is bilingual, speaking Arabic fluently, and has deep ties to New York City’s Arab community.

  • Corporate Social Good
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Donté Donald Vice President
  Donté Donald Vice President

  Donté Donald is a Vice President at Fenton, specializing in media relations, organizational branding and project management.

  Donté has developed and implemented communications strategies for some of the most esteemed organizations in the progressive movement. Before joining Fenton, Donté supported New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray as the Director of Public Affairs for the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.

  Prior to this, he was a national spokesperson on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. He began his career at two of the most well-regarded national economic policy think tanks in the country, Demos and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

  • Issue Advocacy
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Kamali-Ann Burke Vice President
  Kamali-Ann Burke Vice President

  Kamali Burke is a Vice President at Fenton, specializing in media relations, branding, project management and strategic marketing communications.

  She is part of the Racial Justice and DEI practice. Kamali has a desire to make advancements in social issues including education inequity, racial injustice and nutrition. She has worked with clients at Fenton including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Cycle for Survival, Facing History and Ourselves, the National Women’s Law Center and Teachers Pay Teachers.

  • Issue Advocacy
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Olivia Idris Account Director
  Olivia Idris Account Director

  Olivia Idris is an Account Director at Fenton, where she supports organizations working on racial justice, democracy, civic engagement, civil rights and child and family well-being.

  She develops and implements media and messaging strategies for Fenton clients, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Center for Evaluation Innovation, Color Of Change, Stop AAPI Hate and the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge.

  Prior to joining Fenton, Olivia was a William Randolph Hearst Fellow at The Aspen Institute Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) in Washington, DC. This experience provided her with a new perspective on the purpose of social change, which reaffirmed her hope to strengthen both nonprofit organizations and the sector as a whole.

  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Services & Social Justice from the George Washington University.

  • Issue Advocacy
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Olivia McCarren Account Executive
  Olivia McCarren Account Executive

  Olivia McCarren is an Account Executive at Fenton, where she utilizes her previous experience in the nonprofit and government sectors to advocate for crucial issues ranging from immigration reform to voting access. While Olivia supports a wide range of account teams, her passion lies in reforming our modern criminal justice system. More specifically, she is interested in the treatment of juveniles and women within the system and the equity of pre-trial procedures.

  Born and raised just outside Washington, D.C., Olivia had early exposure to activism and grassroots organizing. Throughout her teenage years, she worked on several progressive campaigns and initiatives. Most notably, she worked with the March For Our Lives to organize local and national rallies for gun reform. Her interest in criminal justice began through her role researching the testimony of child witnesses with the University of Southern California – Gould School of Law. Olivia continued to expand on these issues through her work with the U.S. House of Representatives and End Homelessness California.

  • Corporate Social Good
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Sierra Salser Senior Account Executive
  Sierra Salser Senior Account Executive

  Sierra Salser is a Senior Account Executive at Fenton, where she utilizes her skills in communications to support organizations that amplify her passion for social justice and equitable impact.

  Before joining Fenton, Sierra worked at Whiteboard Advisors, a mission-driven strategic consulting, research and communications firm. As a member of their communications team, she worked with nonprofits, foundations, skills training companies, think tanks and others driving radical change in the education space and workforce development. Sierra’s interest in social impact began as a Public Relations and Student Engagement Officer at Austin College in Sherman, Texas where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

  • Issue Advocacy
  • Racial Justice & DEI
• Simran Kanojia Account Executive
  Simran Kanojia Account Executive

  Simran Kanojia is an Account Executive at Fenton, where she utilizes her skills and experiences in effective organization and impactful communication to drive narrative on issues she is most passionate about. Simran started her journey at Fenton in January of 2022 as a Strategic Communication Fellow.

  Simran is passionate about social change and has always sought out opportunities that allow her to use her skills and knowledge to help others and make the world a better and more just place for all. Her previous experience working with 100 Roses from Concrete’s G.R.O.W.T.H. Initiative inspired her to pursue meaningful and fulfilling work, which is what brought her to Fenton. She graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx with a degree in Communications and Culture and a minor in Digital Technologies and Emerging Media.

  • Corporate Social Good
  • Racial Justice & DEI