Balestra is a full-service communications firm exclusively elevating the voices from the progressive community, with an emphasis on movement leaders of color and others traditionally excluded from the media narrative. We offer strategic communications planning, media relations support, messaging, writing, digital strategy, media training, design, video, and website support.
We specialize in shifting the narrative to strengthen people power around our digital rights as they affect the free expression of whistleblowers and other incarcerated individuals, the online privacy of abortion seekers, immigrants, and refugees, and marginalized communities targeted by racialized hate and disinformation online. Everything we take on focuses on new frontiers and battlegrounds where the civil rights struggle continues for the next age.
Our team is comprised of storytellers with experience in Congress, local legislatures, think tanks, film, and community activism. With these backgrounds, we partner with our clients to bring about a more just and participatory media—and a more equitable world.
Our Clients
"...OUTPERFORMS THE COMPETITION WITH SWAG."
JD Stier
Stier Forward
"...PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN HELPING IRC REFRAME REFUGEE ISSUES..."
Sean Piazza
International Rescue Committee
“…made our work have greater impact…”
Heidi Beirich
Southern Poverty Law Center
"...TACTICAL KNOWLEDGE THAT GOES WELL BEYOND MEDIA..."
Tim Karr
Free Press
"...HAVE NEVER SEEN A TEAM THAT GETS RESULTS LIKE BALESTRA"
Evan Greer
Fight for the Future
"...ELEVATED THE VOICES OF COUNTLESS LATINOS..."
Jessica J. González
National Hispanic Media Coalition
"...SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED THE REACH OF OUR WORK..."
Deji Bryce Olukotun
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