Michael Huttner

Michael Huttner
Born	Micheal Dean Huttner December 22, 1969 Denver, Colorado
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University Hastings College of the Law
Occupation	CEO of Fenton, Founder of ProgressNow, political consultant, crisis communications expert, attorney, author

Michael Huttner is an American attorney, author, crisis communications expert and political entrepreneur. On June 1, 2016 he was named the Chief Executive Officer of Fenton, the social change agency. He is the founder of ProgressNow, a network of progressive communication organizations across the United States. To date, Huttner has helped launch over 40 different political and communication organizations.

Huttner is the Founder of ProgressNow, a network of state-based communications organizations that informs and moves people to action for progressive solutions through communications and digital media. Mr. Huttner started ProgressNow in the back of his law firm with his personal list of 700 email addresses in 2003. Today, the 23 ProgressNow state partners have a combined membership exceeding 3.4 million individuals. Huttner and Bobby Clark, a former staffer to the Howard Dean presidential campaign, worked together in 2005 with the technology provider Blue State Digital to develop the website that launched as ProgressNow. ProgressNow was later adopted by the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008. The Washington Post referred to their work as one of the most “ambitious” efforts in grassroots organizing at the state level. Starting with Colorado and then Ohio, Huttner developed a network of state based communications hubs across the country. In 2010, the book "The Blueprint: How Democrats Won Colorado, and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care" described ProgressNow as the "crown jewel" of the progressive investors' effort to flip the state.

Huttner is the author of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America., which late Senator Edward Kennedy described as “A practical handbook on how every American can do something for our country.”

Huttner’s book was attacked by conservative commentators including Fox News's Neil Cavuto. Conservative author Michelle Malkin also attacked Huttner for reaching out to “[Obama] cultists” and for trying to knock her book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies off the New York Times bestseller list.

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