Athena Strategy Partners
Thoughtful. Creative. Judicious. Relentless.
Supporting Leaders and Organizations – including advocates, non-profits, campaigns and philanthropists - to build a better world. Changing the world for women, families, and communities. Helping to make “hope and history rhyme.”
Communications & Mobilization Strategy
Messaging, Content Strategy, Leadership & Stakeholder Voice
Partnerships
Establishing Connections and Coalition Support & Management
Strategic Planning and Coaching
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About Jen Bluestein
A leader, strategist and partner who helps achieve goals, tell impactful stories, establish powerful connections, and build talented and resilient teams. A partner for the long term.
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Our Work
We work with non-profit organizations, campaigns, philanthropies and individual leaders and candidates. Our strength lies in the multiple different ways we support organizations and individuals relentlessly pursue change that helps women, families, and communities thrive.
We think gender equity, educational opportunity, and safer communities are all within our grasp - and we make every day matter to get us there sooner. -
The Bookshelf
Not really a bookshelf. Here’s the things that are capturing our interest, making our synapses fire, and keeping us motivated.
Working with Jen Bluestein & Colleagues
Building Momentum, Movements, Teams, and Organizations
Jen Bluestein is a seasoned leader of national advocacy, campaign and strategic communications efforts
who has spent more than two decades in the non-profit, philanthropic, political and media sectors. Jen has built new organizations and teams from the ground up; managed through crises and opportunities; and nurtured talent at the staff and candidate level.
As a consultant, Jen provides
political, communications, and strategic advice
to organizations striving to achieve significant impact in the non-profit, advocacy, philanthropic, and electoral sectors. She helps organizations and leaders establish powerful partnerships, tell impactful stories, build talent pipelines and effective internal structures, and recover with resilience from challenges. She creates customized teams of whip-smart, dedicated colleagues for each project she takes on — always partnering with people whose work she admires.
As a writer and communications strategist, Jen has contributed multiple opinion pieces to the top outlets in America – always in service of critical policy goals. She’s commissioned research to inform messaging, strategy, and media coverage, and used it to bring stakeholders together and more powerful.
As a partner and manager, Jen gives
thoughtful, direct and discrete insight
allowing colleagues to grow and thrive. She has rebuilt and led powerful HR and team culture projects, resulting in diverse teams with clear opportunities for growth and progress. And with high profile principals and donors, Jen holds herself accountable for providing clear updates on progress, honest assessment of strategy and choices, and for helping them use their voices with maximum comfort and impact.
On issues from abortion and reproductive freedom, to paid leave, educational equity, and gun violence reduction, Jen Bluestein is a dedicated leader and partner who looks for opportunities, never backs down from a fight, and always works for progress.