About Us
American Family Voices (AFV) is an organization that invests in strategic messaging and research projects that help build a communications echo chamber for our side.
AFV serves as an umbrella group that helps fund a broad network of organizations – including civil rights, environmental, women’s rights, consumer advocacy and health care organizations, and multi-issue think tanks – and build their infrastructure, both in the field and in communications.
One of our most important roles is to help organizations build stronger precinct organizations at the local level, working with the broader progressive coalition to coordinate and encourage that kind of person to person work on the ground in targeted areas.
We also fill gaps in the progressive movement by conducting research and PR work that nobody is doing, which helps to drive new media stories.
Examples over the years have included:
- DeLay’s ties to Jack Abramoff, and the way DeLay has raised and spent money including the complicated web of corrupt connections with others in the House, Senate and administration leadership
- Rove, Cheney and Libby around the Valerie Plame scandal
- Halliburton’s no bid contracts
- Bush’s role in Harken Energy
- Bush administration’s ties to Enron
- Arsenic in the water regulation
In all of these cases, we have researched and fed our findings to reporters, delivered daily internet feeds to reporters, activists, progressive groups and the general public, and in some cases we have run quick-hitting ads to get more attention to the story.
American Family Voices’ Board of Directors:
Officers
Mike Lux, President
Amy Pritchard, Secretary-TreasurerBoard Members
Phyllis Cuttino
Bernard Craighead
Leo Hindery, Jr.
Victoria Duffy Hopper
Joe Velasquez
David Wilhelm