Senior Advisor
Washington, DC
Peter has created successful public relations campaigns for clean energy companies and public interest causes since 1990, after 10 years as an award-winning newspaper reporter. He founded Kelley Campaigns in 2004 to work exclusively for non-profit environmental and human rights groups, affiliated with RenewComm in 2006, and acquired the company two years later. He is currently senior advisor to the firm while serving as Vice President, Public Affairs, for the American Wind Energy Association.
Peter started as a reporter on a chain of small-town newspapers in St. Ignace, Michigan, then covered local and state government for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, and D.C. politics for Newhouse Newspapers.
He was the founding staff member of the National Security News Service, and worked at Fenton Communications as a senior account executive for a variety of non-profit clients before holding the top communications job at four national environmental groups: the League of Conservation Voters, National Environmental Trust, American Rivers, and Environment2004.
Peter represented National Environmental Trust at the global warming treaty talks in Kyoto, Japan, and is among the 3,500 people worldwide trained by Al Gore to present the slide show from An Inconvenient Truth. He was communications mentor on the 2007 University of Maryland Solar Decathlon team that won 1st out of 20 in the communications category and 2nd overall for its LEAFHouse, in the international competition to build a self-sufficient solar house on the National Mall. He holds a BA in Government with a minor in Economics from Harvard University.
