Who We Are
Andrew C. Farnitano — Founder & President
Founder & President Andrew C. Farnitano has extensive experience developing winning communications strategies for legislative, ballot, and public affairs campaigns in Massachusetts.
As a consultant with Crawford Strategies, the state’s leading progressive communications firm, he spent the past decade providing strategic communications support to a diverse set of causes and clientele. This year, he launched ACF Impact Strategies to continue helping clients in the grassroots advocacy, nonprofit, and organized labor sectors tell their stories through the media, on Beacon Hill, and in communities across Massachusetts.
Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University, where he studied political science with a focus on urban and environmental policy. He lives in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood with his wife and two daughters.
Stephen Crawford, Crawford Strategies — Senior Advisor
A veteran of numerous local, state, and national political and public affairs campaigns, Stephen Crawford is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and holds a Master of Science degree from Boston University’s College of Communications.
He held communication roles on several Democratic presidential campaigns and served as spokesman for the past two Democratic Governors of Massachusetts. In 2001, he founded Crawford Strategies, where he has served a select group of clients in the political, nonprofit, real estate, and organized labor arenas.