Ginny.Simmons

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Ginny Simmons

Ginny oversees digital strategy at FitzGibbon Media. She has more than a decade’s experience leading online advocacy for some of the country’s biggest nonprofits. Previously, Ginny managed grants for gun violence prevention and digital organizing at the Joyce Foundation. In 2012-2013 Ginny served as the New Media Director for Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Executive Director of the Second Chance on Shoot First Campaign, which worked to reform Stand Your Ground laws across the country. In 2010-2011, Ginny served as the Managing Editor at U.S. Department of Energy. From 2006-2010 Ginny was the U.S. New Media Director at the ONE Campaign. In 2005, Ginny created the first blog written by a death row inmate, an online innovation that generated national and international media attention to questions of innocence in the case. She was raised in New Hampshire, graduated from Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, DC.