James is a communications leader who has spent his career helping mission-driven organizations tell their story, shape public conversation, and navigate moments of change.

He currently leads communications and marketing at Founders Pledge, a global philanthropy organization, overseeing strategy, brand, media, and audience growth.

Before that, he led communications and marketing at BRIC, Brooklyn’s public media and arts center, through a leadership transition, rebuilding the team and leading a brand and website relaunch that repositioned BRIC around media access, digital literacy, and workforce development. At Equality North Carolina, the nation’s oldest statewide LGBTQ rights organization, he led communications through statewide campaigns and high-stakes legislative fights.

He began his career as a journalist and editor at HuffPost covering civil rights, culture, and social change, work that earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination.