Brandon D. Anderson

A Black queer abolitionist organizer, Brandon D. Anderson was born and raised in Oklahoma City during the 1980’s crack epidemic and the 1990’s global HIV pandemic. Before founding Raheem, Anderson served five years in the army, completing two tours in Iraq as a satellite engineer before earning his BA from Georgetown University. Anderson is a former Guest Lecturer at MIT and Claremont College; and is a 2019 TED Fellow, a 2018 Echoing Green Fellow, and a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award nominee.