Partner
Bully Pulpit Interactive
Ben Coffey Clark is responsible for client services, new business and relies on a broad digital background to help clients online. Ben led BPI during a grueling two year campaign cycle and he helped defeat Proposition 32 and led the largest digital spend in California, among other things. Over the past decade, Ben has worked as a political operative, consultant and journalist. Ben is a veteran of several political campaigns. He served as a Get Out The Vote coordinator for southeastern Ohio for President Obama's 2008 campaign and got his start in Iowa working for Howard Dean in the 2004 primary. He spent the remainder of the cycle with the Running for Change Political Action Committee, a Web-based grassroots PAC that raised over a million dollars on behalf of John Kerry. Since then, he has played a role in several high profile campaigns including Rahm Emanuel's recent mayoral campaign. Prior to Bully Pulpit Interactive he worked in Fleishman-Hillard's Washington, D.C., office where he was Co-Chair of the Global Public Affairs Group and ran award-winning issue advocacy campaigns, most notably for PR week's 2010 Public Affairs Campaign of the Year. Ben also pioneered a digital public affairs practice for The Harbour Group, a K street crisis communications firm. A former political reporter in Rhode Island, Ben was the first editorial director for the Washingtonian magazine's website and successfully re-branded the online publication.