Beth Bogart spent more than 20 years as a communications expert at Fenton Communications, both as manager of its Washington office and as the firm’s creative director. She helped wage media campaigns to expose the Reagan administration’s covert wars in Central America, injustices within the death penalty system, the dangers of nuclear war, and environmental issues from toxic exposure to global warming.

Starting in 1984, Bogart worked for a decade with the anti-apartheid movement by helping TransAfrica’s Randall Robinson during his campaign to enact U.S. sanctions and then by assisting Oliver Tambo, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela during their visits to the U.S.

Bogart recently conceived and launched the Iraq Policy Information Project, which helped spawn the Win Without War coalition and other ongoing efforts to promote America’s national interests without unwarranted military intervention. A graduate of Princeton University, she left Harvard Law School to serve as press secretary on Democrat Peter Kostmayer’s successful House race. Bogart earned an MFA from Johns Hopkins University in creative writing. She has published articles in The Washington Post Outlook section, The Washington Post magazine, The Washingtonian, Advertising Age and In These Times, among others.