“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 has worked as a writer, creative director and media strategist in Washington, DC for three decades, specializing in progressive public-policy solutions to hot-button issues.

Silverman retired in 2022 but still does occasional consulting work. He also produces the Substack newsletter realityreport.us

His lengthy client list includes 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 a flavor of Ben and Jerry’s [“Totally Nuts”] and an episode of Law and Order [“Caviar Emptor”].

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

Before turning to consulting in 2005, Silverman served as senior vice president and creative director at Fenton, principal and of counsel at turner4D, and founding communications director at CSPI.

Prior to that, he 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.

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