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Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor
Daisy Hernandez, Managing Editor
Mónica
Hernández, Art Director
New York City
Rinku Sen, Publisher
Andre Banks, Associate Publisher
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Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor of ColorLines Magazine, is an award-winning writer and editor with a particular interest in race, immigration and organizing. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the anthology Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, Amerasia Journal, AlterNet, New California Media, the Boston Globe, the anthology The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century, and the anthology New Horizon: 25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years. She received her B.A. in 1996 from UCLA in English with a minor in Asian American Studies.
Tram has extensive experience as both a journalist and editor. She began her career as editor of the student magazine Pacific Ties, UCLA's Asian American bimonthly publication. From there she moved on to work as trainer and editor at LA Youth. She covered the education beat as a reporter at the San Diego Union-Tribune, and edited Gidra, a non-profit magazine serving the Los Angeles Asian-American community. Tram's extensive coverage of civil liberties earned her a New California Media Award in 2003.
Tram's book, We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories From Immigrant Communities After 9/11 (Beacon) was released in September 2005. |
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Daisy Hernandez is the Managing Editor of ColorLines. Her writing focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color. Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a B.A. in English from William Paterson College in 1997 and an M.A. in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University in 2001. She is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). She has reported and written editorials for the New York Times, written a column for Ms. Magazine, and published with Newsday, the National Catholic Reporter, the Progressive Media Project, bitch magazine, Curve, Criticas, and In These Times. |
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Mónica Hernández is the Art Director of ColorLines magazine. She is a graduate of the Evergreen State College, where she earned degrees in both Sociology and Ethnic Studies. Monica has consulted and designed publications for the Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action, the Center for Third World Organizing, the Center for Child Advocacy and Research, and the Latino Social Work Network of California. In addition to ColorLines, Mónica's photos have been featured inside and on the covers of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She also worked as a photo consultant and researcher for the book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang.
Mónica studied photography and printmaking at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Guanajuato, Mexico, and is currently a student of graphic design at the California College of the Arts. |
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Rinku Sen is the Publisher of ColorLines magazine and President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC). She started her organizing career as a student activist at Brown University, fighting race, gender and class discrimination on campuses. She received a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Brown University in 1988 and an M.A. in Journalism at Columbia University. She has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women’s lives for a wide variety of publications including Third Force, AlterNet, tompaine.com, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Amerasia Journal and Colorlines. She edited We are the Ones We Are Waiting For: Women of Color Organizing for Transformation published by the Urban Rural Missions of the World Council of Churches in 1995. She was the principal investigator on research projects for the Ford and Ms foundations. Her latest book, Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing, a guide for community organizations of all orientations was released in the fall of 2003. The book is a finalist for the 2004 Nautilus Book Award in the social change category.
From 1988-2000, she was on the staff of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), a national network of organizations of color. As a staff member, then Co-Director of CTWO, she trained new organizers of color and crafted public policy campaigns around poverty, education, racial and gender equity, health care and immigration issues. She is a board member of the Center for Third World Organizing, Speak Out Speakers and Artists, and is on the advisory board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. She is formerly a member of the board of Independent Press Association and the Tides Center. She was recognized by Ms. Magazine as one of 21 feminists to watch in the 21st century in 1996, the same year that she received the Ms. Foundation for Women's Gloria Steinem Women of Vision award. She was a Gerbode Fellow in 1999 and was selected as a 2004 Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York. |
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Andre Banks, Associate Publisher of ColorLines and Director of Media and Public Affairs at the Applied Research Center, is a writer and communications professional with extensive experience in non-profit advocacy campaigns and project management. Andre began his career as a student organizer with the Columbus Network for Equal Rights and Justice while earning a B.A. in Political Science from the Ohio State University. Building on his campus organizing experience, 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. An interest in international political economy and domestic campaigns for global justice led Andre to Africa Action. As Assistant Director for Public Education and Mobilization, he coordinated media strategy for the Africa's Right to Health campaign, building a grassroots movement to demand federal action to fight AIDS in Africa and in Black communities in the U.S.
An experienced trainer, Andre was selected as a GrassRoots Organizing Weekend (GROW) Trainer and has led sessions on organizational development, strategic campaigns and communications for student organizations across the country. In addition, he has led numerous workshops on racial and economic justice, Africa policy, and youth organizing for groups as diverse as The National Council of Negro Women, the U.S. Student Association, the National Association of Black Social Workers and TransAfrica Forum.
Andre has been a featured media spokesperson for print, television and radio outlets including, BBC World News, BBC radio, Voice of America, National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, and Free Speech Radio affiliates, The Nation, The American Prospect and Pound magazine. He is also a published writer interested in issues of race, gender, sexuality and international politics whose commentary has been featured in the Black Commentator and Foreign Policy in Focus. |
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