Draft:Brandi Collins-Dexter
{{AFC submission|||u=Hopeisadiscipline|ns=118|ts=20250626160509}}
{{AFC submission|d|bio|u=Northerlywind|ns=118|decliner=JacobTheRox|declinets=20250625133900|ts=20250620154102}}
{{AFC comment|1=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)}}
----
{{Short description|American writer, researcher and policy advocate}}
{{Draft topics|women|media}}
{{AfC topic|blp}}
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.
{{Infobox academic
| name = Brandi Collins-Dexter
| education = Agnes Scott College {{small|(BA)}}
University of Wisconsin-Madison {{small|(JD)}}
| workplaces = Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
| image = Informed- Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age - 037A3779 (52532222609).jpg
}}
Brandi Collins-Dexter is an American writer, researcher and policy advocate. She is author of Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future...{{cite web |title=Black Skinhead |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250824127/blackskinhead/ |website=Macmillan Publishers}}. Currently, she is a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy of Harvard Kennedy School{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/brandi-collins-dexter/ |website=Shorenstein Center}}. The Hill named her a "person to watch" in 2017{{cite news |last1=Breland |first1=Ali |last2=McCabe |first2=David |last3=Neidig |first3=Harper |last4=Uchill |first4=Joe |last5=Williams |first5=Katie |title=16 people to watch in tech |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/318390-16-people-to-watch-in-tech/ |access-date=20 June 2025 |work=The Hill |date=8 February 2017}} and The Root named her one of The Most Influential African Americans in 2019{{cite web |title=The Root 100 - The Most Influential African Americans In 2019 |url=https://interactives.theroot.com/root-100-2019/business/ |website=The Root|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010125115/https://interactives.theroot.com/root-100-2019/business/ |archive-date=10 October 2023 }}. In 2020, she was awarded the Champions of Freedom Award by the Electronic Privacy Information Center{{cite web | author= |title=EPIC - EPIC Alert 27.09 |url=https://archive.epic.org/alert/epic_alert_27.09.html#_6.__ |publisher=Electronic Privacy Information Center|website=archive.epic.org |language=en}}
Career
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{{cite web |last1=Hendrix |first1=Justin |title=Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter {{!}} TechPolicy.Press |url=https://www.techpolicy.press/black-skinhead-a-conversation-with-brandi-collins-dexter/ |website=Tech Policy Press |language=en |date=6 November 2022}}. She has worked at MediaJustice and Safer Foundation in Illinois{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://www.economicliberties.us/brandi-collins-dexter/# |website=American Economic Liberties Project}}. She was Senior Campaign Director of Media, Culture and Economic Justice at Color of Change{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter {{!}} Free Press |url=https://www.freepress.net/about/board/brandi-collins-dexter |website=www.freepress.net |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://spitfirestrategies.com/case-studies/brandi-collins-dexter/ |website=Spitfire Strategies |date=19 March 2025}}. 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{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://www.economicliberties.us/brandi-collins-dexter/# |website=American Economic Liberties Project}}{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://www.citizen.org/about/person/brandi-collins-dexter/ |website=Public Citizen |language=en}}. She was also one of the leaders in getting Facebook to undergo a civil rights audit{{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Pema |last2=Riley |first2=Tonya |title=Activists couldn't get Facebook to tackle its discrimination problem—until the Russia scandal hit |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/activists-couldnt-get-facebook-to-tackle-its-discrimination-problem-until-the-russia-scandal-hit/ |website=Mother Jones}}{{cite web |title=Black Lives Matter Activists Say They're Being Silenced By Facebook |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-silencing-black-lives-matter-activists |website=BuzzFeed News |date=19 June 2020 |language=en}}.
She has testified in Congress on numerous occasions{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/brandi-collins-dexter/101627/ |website=www.c-span.org}}{{cite web |title=Brandi Collins-Dexter |url=https://www.wgbh.org/people/brandi-collins-dexter |website=GBH |language=en}}, including in front the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce on issues such as disinformation{{cite web |title=House Hearing on Disinformation Campaigns and Social Media |url=https://www.c-span.org/program/house-committee/house-hearing-on-disinformation-campaigns-and-social-media/548536 |website=www.c-span.org |access-date=20 June 2025}} and consumer privacy{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20000-national-security-archive-034-testimony |website=nsarchive.gwu.edu |access-date=20 June 2025}}. She has written numerous articles on issues including crypto-currency, retail theft, and surveillance including in Essence{{cite news |last1=Collins-Dexter |first1=Brandi |title=What Did Hurricane Katrina Teach Us About Environmental Racism? |url=https://www.essence.com/news/hurricane-katrina-inflation-reduction-act/ |work=Essence |date=29 August 2022}} and Wired{{cite magazine |last1=Collins-Dexter |first1=Brandi |title=Satoshi Is Black |date=16 November 2023|url=https://www.wired.com/story/what-can-crypto-still-do-for-black-people/ |magazine=Wired}}. 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{{cite web |title=Public Voices Fellows to Shape Discourse on Technology in the Public Interest |url=https://www.macfound.org/press/grantee-news/public-voices-fellows-to-shape-discourse-on-technology-in-the-public-interest |website=www.macfound.org |language=en}}. In 2022, she published her debut essay collection Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Mychal Denzel |title=The Kanye Whisperer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/books/review/black-skinhead-brandi-collins-dexter.html |access-date=26 June 2025 |work=New York Times |date=27 October 2022}}{{cite web |title="Black Skinhead": Brandi Collins-Dexter's book on Black politics |url=https://www.wypr.org/show/midday/2022-12-28/black-skinhead-brandi-collins-dexters-book-on-black-politics |website=WYPR |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Interview with Brandi Collins-Dexter, Author or Black Skinhead |url=https://celadonbooks.com/interviews/black-skinhead-brandi-collins-dexter-interview/ |website=Celadon Books |date=24 October 2022}}{{cite web |title=New Book Explores Perspectives of Black Voters Disillusioned With Democratic Party |url=https://news.wttw.com/2022/10/19/new-book-explores-perspectives-black-voters-disillusioned-democratic-party |website=WTTW News}}{{cite web |title=Protesting Twitter 'Normalizing Racism,' Activists Call on Social Networks to Ban White Supremacists |url=https://broadbandbreakfast.com/protesting-twitters-normalizing-racism-activists-call-on-social-network-to-ban-white-supremacists/ |website=Broadband Breakfast |language=en |date=7 August 2019}}
== Books ==
{{cite book |last1=Collins-Dexter |first1=Brandi |title=Black skinhead: reflections on Blackness and our political future |date=2022 |publisher=Celadon Books |location=New York |isbn=9781250824110}}
References
{{reflist}}