Mark Andersen is a
punk rock community activist and author who lives in
Washington D.C.
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He was born and raised in rural Montana, and moved to Washington D.C. in 1984 to attend graduate school at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of the ...
(SAIS).
Andersen co-founded the punk activist organization
Positive Force D.C. in 1985, and the We Are Family Senior Outreach Network in 2004. Together with his wife, Tulin Ozdeger, he is the co-director of We Are Family, which serves low-income seniors in the Shaw, North Capitol Street and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.
He has contributed to several other books including ''Sober Living For the Revolution: Hardcore, Radical Politics, and Straight Edge'' (2010), ''We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews'' (Expanded Edition) (2008), ''Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood'' (2011), and ''Rock Politics: Popular Musicians Who Changed the World'' (2012).
Andersen donated his archives to the
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLKML) is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the 400,000 square foot (37,000 m2) steel, brick, and glass structure, and it is a ra ...
in 2015.
Works
* ''Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitol'' (
Soft Skull Press
Counterpoint LLC was a publishing company distributed by Perseus Books Group launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Avalon Publishing Group's Shoemaker & Hoard and the independent So ...
, 2001),
* ''All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion'' Punk Planet Books, (2004),
* ''We are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band that Mattered.'' Akashic Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2018.
References
External links
Positive Force D.C.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American activists
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
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