Brandi Collins-Dexter

Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center

Brandi Collins-Dexter is the Schuster Media and Technology Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and Research Fellow at the National Center On Race & Digital Justice. As former Senior Campaign Director of media, culture and economic justice at Color Of Change, she led a number of successful and highly visible campaigns for corporate and government accountability and worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies on key corporate policy changes. Collins-Dexter has testified in front of congress on matters relating to online privacy, racialized surveillance and information integrity. Her critically acclaimed book Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future explores Black political, economic and social power in the US. She is currently developing a podcast and education series on 1980s era media, cultural spaces and police tech in Chicago.

Brandi holds a B.A. in history from Agnes Scott College, and a J.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. She currently lives in Baltimore, MD.