Unbendable Media

Unbendable Media’ clients include Media Matters for America, Demand Justice, ³ pro-abortion NARAL Pro-Choice California, ⁴ pro-marijuana legalization Americans for Safe Access, ⁵ Progressive Change Campaign Committee, ⁶ and the national Communication Workers of America labor union, which is a member of the AFL-CIO. ^{7 8}

Unbendable Media’s work has included promoting left-of-center policy approaches to detention of illegal immigrants, critical race theory-influenced social justice issues, gender issues, the #MeToo Movement, and the alleged gender pay gap in Hollywood. ^{9 10 11}

History and Leadership

Unbendable Media was co-founded in 2016 by Brett Abrams, Madison Donzis, and Anna Zuccaro. The three previously worked for public relations firm FitzGibbon Media as the senior director of media relations, account manager, and media relations specialist respectively. ^{12 13 14 15}

Unbendable Media’s name comes from the supposed “unbendable values of the staff” of FitzGibbon Media after FitzGibbon Media closed in December 2015 following allegations of personal misconduct against the organization’s president Trevor FitzGibbon. ² When Unbendable Media launched in 2016, it hired five former staffers of the FitzGibbon Media and retained at least 12 former FitzGibbon Media accounts and clients. ²

As of March 2024, Unbendable Media co-founder Brett Abrams is the organization’s CEO. ¹² Abrams also is a key consultant for left-of-center MomsRising Together ¹⁰ and works in media relations for Voices for Fosters. ¹⁶ Prior to working at FitzGibbon Media, Abrams was campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which was founded by left-wing activist Ralph Nader. ¹⁰

Anna Zuccaro was a co-founder of Unbendable Media until leaving the company in February 2024. As of September 2024 she worked as a law clerk for New York-based law firm Mintz. Previously, she was a media relations strategist for FitzGibbon Media, a public relations consultant for Up to Us, and a communications consultant for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). ¹⁵

Unbendable Media maintains offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. ¹⁷

Activities and Funding

Unbendable Media is a left-of-center public relations firm that seeks to gain earned media and media attention for left-of-center organizations. The organization has worked on the development and implementation of distribution projects ¹ and media strategies for left-of-center campaigns. Unbendable Media targets companies to hold them and their advertisers accountable for what Unbendable Media considers problematic, racist, or sexist endorsements. ¹⁰

Unbendable Media also works on left-of-center approaches to issues related to detention of illegal immigrants and Medicaid expansion. ¹⁰ It also has worked with left-of-center nonprofit organizations on critical race theory-influenced social justice issues, gender issues, the #MeToo Movement, ¹¹ and Hollywood’s alleged gender pay gap. ⁹

Clients

Unbendable Media represents the left-wing media criticism outlet Media Matters for America and Demand Justice, a left-of-center group focused on the federal judiciary. During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Unbendable Media shared advertisements created by Demand Justice that criticized Facebook’s association with Kavanaugh and the Federalist Society and urged Facebook employees to work anonymously with its activists. ¹⁸

Unbendable Media has written press releases for and supported other left-of-center organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice California in its endorsement of Democrats running for office in California, ⁴ the pro-marijuana legalization organization Americans for Safe Access, ⁵ the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, ⁶ and the national Communication Workers of America labor union, which is a member of the AFL-CIO. ⁷