Andre Banks

Andre Banks

Andre Banks is the Director of Media and Public Affairs at the Applied Research Center and Associate Publisher of ColorLines magazine. He brings together media outreach, new media strategy and multimedia production - moving messages to and about people of color in mainstream, ethnic and alternative media.

Andre began his career as an organizer with the Columbus Network for Equal Rights and Justice at Ohio State University where he earned a bachelor degree in political science. He moved on to head the National Student Program at the AFL-CIO, working to build alliances between unions and student organizations concerned with economic justice. As Assistant Director for Public Education and Mobilization at Africa Action, he coordinated the national media strategy for the Africa’s Right to Health campaign, building public pressure to fight AIDS in Africa and securing a unanimous resolution in the Republican-controlled Congress against genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

Andre has also been a featured media spokesperson for print, television and radio outlets including, BBC World News, Voice of America, National Public Radio, The Nation, The American Prospect and Pound magazine. He is a published writer on race, sexuality and pop culture and edits RaceWire.org, the ColorLines blog. His writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus, ColorLines, The Black Commentator and The Huffington Post.

Posted at 11:00 PM, Sep 05, 2004 in Contributors | Permalink