Brandi Collins-Dexter
Brandi (she/her) is a writer, activist and researcher. She is currently a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She is the former Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, where she oversaw the media, culture, and economic justice departments. She led a number of successful corporate accountability campaigns ranging from getting R. Kelly dropped from RCA to pressuring financial companies to pull funding from over 100 hate groups.
Brandi is the author of Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future which explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic party through a series of essays that span Brandi’s political, cultural and personal experiences. The book is slated to publish in the Fall 2022 and is available to pre-order now.
Brandi is a regular commentator in the media on racial justice and was named a 2017 “person to watch” by The Hill and one of the 100 most influential African Americans by The Root in 2019. She holds a B.A. in history from Agnes Scott College, and a J.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Brandi comes from a long line of South Side Chicagoans and currently lives in Baltimore with her husband David and their cat, Ella.
