Abby Paige Fenton

Abby Paige Fenton serves as the Executive Director of the Whitman-Walker Foundation and Chief External Affairs Officer for Whitman-Walker. She oversees fundraising, branding, community relations, communications and media relations while also serving on the executive leadership team.

Prior to joining Whitman-Walker in 2015, Abby served as the Director of Community Relations at ABC7/WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8 where she oversaw the stations corporate social responsibility initiatives and public relations strategies and created partnerships and messaging opportunities for over 400 non-profits per year. Earlier in her career, she worked in event planning and fundraising in DC for the District Chamber of Commerce and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and in Baltimore at Center Stage. While at Woolly, Abby helped to raise nearly $9 million for “BREAKING NEW GROUND: The Campaign for Woolly Mammoth.” At Center Stage, she helped to raise over $14 million for their $12 million capital campaign.

Abby has been named one of the YWCA of the National Capital Region’s Women of Achievement and was included in Washington Life Magazine’s list of the most influential people in Washington for four years in a row. She worked as the Executive Producer for the award-winning feature film Cruzando. She is a graduate of the class of 2012 from Leadership Greater Washington and continues to be a speaker for their Rising Leaders program. She serves on the board of the Anacostia Business Improvement District and co-chaired Theatre Washington’s Victor Shargai Leadership Awards Committee in 2023. She also serves as Board Chair for Leashes of Valor – an organization that trains rescue dogs to be service dogs for Veterans living with PTSD and TBI. Abby is a graduate of Kenyon College and has lived in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC for over 24 years.