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Brandon Lacy Campos

National Media Justice Organizer
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Brandon Lacy Campos, 30, was described by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 2006 as a "Young Wonk to Watch." He recently joined the staff of the Center for Media Justice as the Grassroots Media Policy Advocate after a year and a half as a fellow and Associate Director at the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution working diligently to create electoral reform and radical democracy policy to lay the groundwork for a revolutionary re-shaping of the nation that today exists on this stolen land.
 
BLC is a queer,HIV positive, multi-racial (white, African-American, Afro-Puerto Rican, Ojibwe) organizer, playwright, poet, actor, essayist, and journalist. Originally from Duluth, MN and raised in the Phillipines, and Kansas City (MO), Brandon went to high school in Minneapolis, MN. His Pops is from Southern Applachia (West Virginia) and BLC is proud of his Southern and Applachian roots. As an organizer, his work has focused largely in the youth movement as well as organizing for social change with queer young folks, poor folks, and folks of color. He co-founded Unid@s, the new national queer Latin@ LGBT organization, was the founding chairperson of the National Lavender Green Caucus of the Green Party of the United States, and has worked with national, regional, and local queer social justice organizations across the country.
 
Political organizing is his passion, writing is his life's work. Brandon's is a former journalist with Lavender Magazine and the LGBT Press, his poetry has appeared in Mariposas: A Modern Queer Latino Anthology by Floricanto Press, Under What Bandera: Anti-War Ofrendas from Minneapolis and Califas by Calaca Press, 60 Seconds to Shine by Simon and Schuster Press, and Queer Codex: Chile Love by Evelyn Street Press. He is a member of the Latin@ spoken word collective Palabristas: Word Slingers,and his organizing work has been highlighted in both the Advocate and Genre magazines. Brandon is a former two time Many Voices/Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and his play Dividing Lines, directed by queer South Asian artist D'Lo, was produced at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. He is currently working on a queer animated series in partnership with visual artist David Berube and his first creative non-fiction novel.
 
BLC started his higher education at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, studied colonialsim and feminism at La Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus in 2001.