Jenice R. Robinson

Communications Director



Jenice is ITEP’s communications director. Her role includes leading ITEP’s external communications and ensuring its tax policy research and analyses are accessible to a wide variety of audiences. To this end, she develops, implements and advises on communications strategies to support ITEP’s mission to secure sustainable, progressive tax policies at the local, state and federal levels. She draws on years of experience working on anti-poverty and social justice issues to inform her occasional blogs and commentary about the intersection of tax policy and income inequality.

Jenice has more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and media relations, including serving as the national media director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where she wrote executive speeches and op-eds; regularly booked the union president on national broadcast media; directed the union’s media outreach during the 2012 election cycle, and helped bring media attention to organizing campaigns on behalf of the union’s members. Her previous experience also includes building and implementing a strategic communications program from the ground up at CLASP (an anti-poverty policy group). She also led media relations at the National Women’s Law Center, where she closely worked with senior legal scholars and researchers and used her media outreach, communications and writing skills to elevate the center’s legal, campaign and policy work.

Jenice is a proud but disenfranchised Washingtonian. Like the other 600,000+ residents of the District of Columbia, she dutifully pays her federal income taxes. The irony of working on issues of tax fairness while being taxed without representation is not lost on her.

jenice at itep.org

Recent Publications and Posts   view more

  • Observations from Census Data on Poverty and Income

    Today's poverty and income data show that income continues to concentrate at the top; in fact, the top 20 percent continue to capture 51.5 percent of income. Meanwhile, average income for the poorest 20 percent of households is less today than it was 18 years ago.