When Experience Matters Most
Industry leaders trust LUNA+EISENLA when experience counts and being seen and heard are paramount.
With offices in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL, our team’s unique and personalized strategies have played an influential role in helping guide businesses, nonprofits, and organizations at the forefront of change. LUNA+EISENLA has helped our clients reshape society and create a better world in the process, including:
Scientific breakthroughs and cures for rare diseases
Passage of landmark civil rights laws
Reshaping of the U.S. Tax Code and regulatory policies ensuring a fairer playing field for small businesses
Greater access to equitable and affordable health care
Groundbreaking new product launches by multinational companies
Advancing new mobility and transportation systems providing global solutions to 21st century infrastructure challenges
Smart Powered
“Our smart powered approach to communications brings together a collaborative team of executives designed to deliver the highest caliber work in the industry. The ethos of LUNA+EISENLA can be summed up in one word – excellence.”
– Brad Luna, Founding Partner
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Brad has worked to raise the visibility and shape coverage of high-profile issues in the media for over twenty years. He has a depth of connections and relationships with top-tier media and influencers that come only with years of experience representing clients and issues at the forefront of the national conversation.
Brad served as Press Secretary to Rep. Brad Carson, later Undersecretary of Defense, providing messaging consultation and strategic communications services for the only tribal-enrolled, Native American member of Congress. As Director of Communications for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for LGBTQ Americans, Brad oversaw the the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Since co-founding LUNA+EISENLA media, Brad has advised Fortune 50 companies, hospitals, legacy non-profits, premier research institutions and advocacy organizations on the biggest public policy issues of our time. A steady-hand and trusted adviser, Brad helps clients navigate complex situations and break through the noise of an over-saturated news cycle to establish their brands and voice as leaders in their respective fields.
He guest lectures on political communications, message development and public policy at George Washington University and American University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tulsa and attended The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
Integrative Strategies
“Today’s media and information landscape is as complex as ever, and that’s why LUNA+EISENLA brings an integrative process harnessing the power of new technologies and time-tested strategies. With the smartest communications minds around the table, equipped with the latest cutting-edge approach, we deliver for our clients in creative and unexpected ways.”
– Kristofer Eisenla, Founding Partner
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Kristofer has extensive experience providing communications and media relations counsel to a wide range of government, campaign, non-profit and corporate institutions. Understanding the media landscape, Kristofer’s expertise stems from his work on presidential and senatorial campaigns, as well for members of Congress and America’s top CEOs. Prior to LUNA+EISENLA media, Kristofer was a vice president at Widmeyer Communications, a public affairs and media relations firm in Washington, D.C. and New York, leading media efforts at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Association for the Self-Employed, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Pearson Education, the National Center for Education and the Economy, the Data Quality Campaign, the Cartoon Network and the American Energy Innovation Council.
Kristofer’s health care background includes working on behalf of members of congress to secure reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), promoting embryonic stem cell research, and passage of the Affordable Care Act. Most recently, he’s focused on raising the thought leadership of experts in influenza, coronavirus, and other infectious diseases on America’s most vulnerable populations. Additionally, Kristofer has represented groups working on vital Medicaid expansion for our nation’s most vulnerable and impact of the health care law on our nation’s small business community. As a result, his work has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Associated Press, and countless other media outlets.
From 2007 to 2010, Kristofer served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director for U.S. Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado, overseeing public policy and political messaging and communications efforts. During the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008, he served as Rep. DeGette’s political liaison on the Host Committee. Kristofer also served as Director of Communications for U.S. Representative Sander Levin of Michigan from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure there, he secured a front-page profile piece of Rep. Levin and his trade specialty in The New York Times. He graduated from California State University, Stanislaus, with a degree in Politics and Economics, and has advanced degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and The George Washington University. Kristofer has been awarded the Bronze Anvil by the Public Relations Society of America.
Our Team
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Creative Director
Sean has more than a decade as a creative director, designer, developer, and marketer helping a broad range of clients striving to create change in our world. Sean works with small businesses, corporations, and nonprofits to create stunning, visually interesting branding, content and digital experiences.
From branding, print design, and product development, to web design, web development, e-commerce marketing, and sales campaigns, Sean implements best practices by helping clients utilize the digital space to see their content communicated in new, cutting-edge ways.
The diversity of the work he has designed for clients ranging from national home health companies, like TRX Training, to helping bring greater economic development and leadership to African countries through the Global Partners for Development, Sean’s trusted experience in visual storytelling is sought out out by those looking to mobilize audiences and raise brand awareness.
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Director of Digital Strategies
Riah Gonzales-King is a marketing executive who has managed digital-centric marketing operations since 2012. She has worked with nonprofits, businesses, professional service firms, e-commerce brands and celebrities across the globe to effectively bring brands, products, services, and issue advocacy campaigns to target markets.
As a digital evangelist, she has extensive experience in social media content and paid advertising campaigns, Google & YouTube campaigns, CRM optimization, print media advertising, influencer relations, web development, brand identity design and more. She is passionate about bringing together captivating design with cutting-edge technology to achieve impeccable results.
Riah deploys stunning creative ideation and targeted strategies to seamlessly execute and optimize digital campaigns to make a difference and achieve value-added results for clients.
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Director of Content
Elizabeth is a communications strategist who specializes in helping make complicated and technical issues clear and actionable for a wide variety of audiences. She believes in the power of effective messaging and compelling content to spark discussion, inform debate, and create positive change. Her approach to message development is research-based and she conducts deep dives to understand audience behavior and the issue landscape when crafting messages.
Elizabeth has been a senior leader of some of Washington, DC’s top public relations agencies as well as an entrepreneur running her own businesses. As vice president at Curley Company, she led the firm’s health care practice and managed campaigns to improve women’s access to GYN specialty care and advanced breast cancer screening technologies. She frequently wrote op-eds and articles for patient and provider bylines, created content for websites and social media platforms, and developed digital and grassroots campaigns.
Previously she was a vice president at Spitfire Strategies, where she focused on health care policy and children’s health insurance coverage issues. She developed communications and messaging strategies for a cohort of state-based children’s health advocates funded by the Packard Foundation, helping these groups expand CHIP coverage in states with challenging policy environments, including Texas, Arkansas, and Wisconsin. At APCO Worldwide, she created a health literacy program aimed at reducing medication errors and improving compliance, as well as an internal communications campaign to help pharmaceutical company employees talk about controversial issues like drug reimportation.
A native Californian, Elizabeth graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in geography. She also has a certificate in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University. She is the immediate-past board chair of Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, a national park site located along the Anacostia River in Washington, DC’s Ward 7.