Langhum Mitchell Communications began informally in 1998 and was formally incorporated in 2000 by co-founders Dwight Langhum and Niki Mitchell. By the time LMC launched, each of the founders had spent more than a decade working in strategic communication and journalism in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.

LMC entered the communications scene with the high-profile National Partnership for Community Leadership. The Ford Foundation chose NPCL to lead its Fragile Families Initiative and contracted LMC to publicize it and influence policy change. We coined the term “dead broke dads” to distinguish between fathers who can pay child support and those who have no means to pay. We then developed a comprehensive campaign promoting this message and played a prominent role in getting the U.S. House of Representatives to pass legislation. We are extremely proud of this work as pioneers in the “responsible fatherhood movement.”

Since then, LMC has been privileged to play prominent roles in many fights where we punched above our apparent weight. Our work has helped: to free an imprisoned Mexican environmentalist, to re-frame rural issues for national policymakers, to run a White House briefing that helped establish a role for energy retrofitting in the mix of climate-change solutions, to establish collective leadership as a means for marginalized communities to solve local problems, and to produce an award-winning talk radio show focused on organized labor and public transit. We practice strategic communication because it works, supporting meaningful and sustainable change.

Corporate Mission

Over the years, LMC has helped institutions and individual change agents from across the globe advance their missions. Most of our clients are focused on change — be it through policy, advancing social and economic justice, pursuing technological innovation, improving health outcomes, expanding educational opportunity, increasing workplace safety, or protecting the environment. We recognize the value of the stories our clients have to tell. But those stories can only have impact if they’re heard by the right people at the right time. That’s our mission: to help clients identify and engage the right stakeholders in stories that enlighten, inspire and motivate people to take action, responsibly.

We’ve already made the world safer, healthier and more equitable than it was when LMC started. But we’re not done yet. Moving forward, we will continue fighting the “good fights,” inspiring future generations to do the same so we may all thrive.