James W. Peters is a Rhode Island-based writer and consultant in strategic communications. During his 35-year career he has managed communications, government relations, marketing and other administrative functions for large integrated health care systems in Maine, California and Rhode Island.

Peters is a 1969 graduate of Fordham University, where he studied communications and philosophy and spent a year of independent study under the late Marshall McLuhan. He has won many national and international awards for a wide variety of communications projects, films, scripts, and publications and has consulted on numerous communications projects for governmental, political, corporate and non-profit clients.