2017 Elena Curris Global Issues Lecture Featuring Andre Banks

Designing Resistance: Remaking the Movement for Human Rights

Andre Banks is an activist, entrepreneur and strategic advisor based in New York City who has spent the last 15 years harnessing the power of storytelling and technology to build social movements in the US and around the world. He is also the Co-founder and former Executive Director of All Out (www.allout.org), an organization mobilizing in every region to create a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity because of who they are or whom they love. Andre was recently appointed to the global governing board of Amnesty International and has twice been recognized by the Economist magazine as one of the “Top 50 Diversity Leaders in Public Life”.