Maine-based Philip Shelley is a native New Yorker who majored in English (with a Philosophy minor) at the University of Southern Maine, where he was active as a community organizer and worked as an academic tutor for immigrant and ESL students. He started his career in the New York ad agency world, working on Fortune 500 accounts (LG, Bank of America, Jose Cuervo, Verizon, M&M’s), before making a deliberate shift to nonprofit work to better align his professional life with his personal values. He has worked extensively in higher education marketing and communications, for the Bard system and as senior editor at the University of New England, where his work won multiple awards. Prior to joining the Fair Elections Center, Philip spent a year as a content developer for an Office of Refugee Resettlement program, ILSAA, that helps Afghan refugees find immigration legal representation. In his “spare” time, he writes fiction and essays and edits a small online literary journal.
