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Public Affairs Consulting

20+ Years in the Public Sector

Engaging communities, solving problems, and fighting for justice for all through public affairs consulting with government agencies, labor unions, and nonprofits.

Our Services

Solving Your Toughest Problems

Organizational Development

We give you the tools and structures you need to pursue your mission, from a 360-degree view. We specialize in mission/vision/values alignment, strengthening your Board of Directors, strategic planning, efficient program design, and developing key performance indicators. Expertise both in 501c3 and c4 activities.

Public Policy

We will help you develop the nuances of your public policy priorities and a strategy to achieve your policy goals, at the federal, state, and local levels. We specialize in policy analysis, power mapping, stakeholder management, coalition building, and grassroots organizing.

Legislative Affairs

We work to make your legislative goals a reality. We specialize in lobbying and member meetings, coordinating and delivering committee testimony, bill tracking, building a legislative agenda, relationship building, organizing lobby days, and constituent spokesperson training.

Communications

We translate complex topics into digestible messages that achieve organizational goals as part of a broader strategy. Specializing in brand management, social media content creation, website and ecommerce development, audience targeting, and news media strategy and placements.

Civic Engagement

We develop and oversee field plans for your democracy goals. We specialize in get-out-the-vote campaigns, voter registration, Census campaigns, and culturally appropriate community outreach.

What They're Saying

"I have known Ben Henry for years and I can attest to the fact and have seen that he has been a great leader in the community, has vast knowledge and dedication in any work that he does. Ben possesses unique skills that our social justice movement needs."

Violet LavataiExecutive Director, Tenants Union of Washington

"Ben is a committed public policy scholar, whose work is motivated by equity. His knowledge of the issues, ability to communicate with diverse audiences, and leadership and interpersonal skills would make him an asset to your organization."

Sameer RanadeClimate Change Policy Advocate

What They're Saying

Be a Force

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash.

Be water, my friend.”

– Bruce Lee

A Commitment to Justice

I’ve watched as my mother ran businesses her entire life in a place she is not from and with a language she did not grow up speaking. As the son of an immigrant and as a mixed-race person of color, it is my life’s work to build a society that works for everyone, not just a select few.

Ben Henry Associates brings a social justice and equity lens to all we do. We measure our impact by our ability to bring good into the world. Institutional and systemic racism, gender and orientation discrimination, implicit bias, bigotry, and xenophobia are real and pervasive. We work to reverse the insidious impacts of injustice.