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  • Comment: Being one of the top 16 or 100 is not really proving notability. So we're down to one biography by the Shorenstein Center and one by Free Press. Sorry but that's not enough to prove her notability. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 13:39, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I disagree that she is not notable. She has published a book that has been reviewed by The New York Times, has been a director at a national organization and given testimony at Congress. I would like a re-review. Thanks.


Brandi Collins-Dexter
Academic background
EducationAgnes Scott College (BA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (JD)
Academic work
InstitutionsShorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

Brandi Collins-Dexter is an American writer, researcher and policy advocate. She is author of Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future.[1]. Currently, she is a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy of Harvard Kennedy School[2]. The Hill named her a "person to watch" in 2017[3] and The Root named her one of The Most Influential African Americans in 2019[4]. In 2020, she was awarded the Champions of Freedom Award by the Electronic Privacy Information Center[5].

Career

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Collins-Dexter holds a B.A. in history from Agnes Scott College, and a J.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. In the early 2000s, she lived in London, UK for a couple years[6]. She has worked at MediaJustice and Safer Foundation in Illinois[7]. She was Senior Campaign Director of Media, Culture and Economic Justice at Color of Change[8][9]. At Color of Change, she led a number of campaigns including getting The O’Reilly Factor off the air and getting R. Kelly dropped from RCA[10][11]. She was also one of the leaders in getting Facebook to undergo a civil rights audit[12][13].

She has testified in Congress on numerous occasions[14][15], including in front the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce on issues such as disinformation[16] and consumer privacy[17]. She has written numerous articles on issues including crypto-currency, retail theft, and surveillance including in Essence[18] and Wired[19]. She was a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest from 2023-2024, an initiative of The OpEd Project funded by the Macarthur Foundation[20]. In 2022, she published her debut essay collection Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future[21][22][23][24][25].

Books

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Collins-Dexter, Brandi (2022). Black skinhead: reflections on Blackness and our political future. New York: Celadon Books. ISBN 9781250824110.

References

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  1. ^ "Black Skinhead". Macmillan Publishers.
  2. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". Shorenstein Center.
  3. ^ Breland, Ali; McCabe, David; Neidig, Harper; Uchill, Joe; Williams, Katie (8 February 2017). "16 people to watch in tech". The Hill. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  4. ^ "The Root 100 - The Most Influential African Americans In 2019". The Root. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023.
  5. ^ "EPIC - EPIC Alert 27.09". archive.epic.org. Electronic Privacy Information Center.
  6. ^ Hendrix, Justin (6 November 2022). "Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter | TechPolicy.Press". Tech Policy Press.
  7. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". American Economic Liberties Project.
  8. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter | Free Press". www.freepress.net.
  9. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". Spitfire Strategies. 19 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". American Economic Liberties Project.
  11. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". Public Citizen.
  12. ^ Levy, Pema; Riley, Tonya. "Activists couldn't get Facebook to tackle its discrimination problem—until the Russia scandal hit". Mother Jones.
  13. ^ "Black Lives Matter Activists Say They're Being Silenced By Facebook". BuzzFeed News.
  14. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  15. ^ "Brandi Collins-Dexter". GBH.
  16. ^ "House Hearing on Disinformation Campaigns and Social Media". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  17. ^ "Testimony Of Brandi Collins-Dexter Senior Campaign Director, Color Of Change Before The Subcommittee On Consumer Protection And Commerce, United States House Committee On Energy And Commerce Hearing On "Protecting Consumer Privacy In An Era Of Big Data." February 26, 2019. Unclassified. | National Security Archive". nsarchive.gwu.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  18. ^ Collins-Dexter, Brandi (29 August 2022). "What Did Hurricane Katrina Teach Us About Environmental Racism?". Essence.
  19. ^ Collins-Dexter, Brandi (16 November 2023). "Satoshi Is Black". Wired.
  20. ^ "Public Voices Fellows to Shape Discourse on Technology in the Public Interest". www.macfound.org.
  21. ^ Smith, Mychal Denzel (27 October 2022). "The Kanye Whisperer". New York Times. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  22. ^ ""Black Skinhead": Brandi Collins-Dexter's book on Black politics". WYPR.
  23. ^ "Interview with Brandi Collins-Dexter, Author or Black Skinhead". Celadon Books. 24 October 2022.
  24. ^ "New Book Explores Perspectives of Black Voters Disillusioned With Democratic Party". WTTW News.
  25. ^ "Protesting Twitter 'Normalizing Racism,' Activists Call on Social Networks to Ban White Supremacists". Broadband Breakfast. 7 August 2019.
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