Andrew Slack
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The HP Alliance is constantly looking for volunteers to write press releases, blog posts, help with back end web design, and more. Contact andrew@thehpalliance.org for more details.| Hometown: | Honolulu and Boston, MA |
| Interests: | An Economy for All, Health Care for All, New Energy, The Big Con, Quality Education, Real Security, Social Security, Making Sense, America's Future Now, Invest In America, Progressive Vision, Revitalizing Democracy, child soldiers, Congo, Darfur, Genocide, global transformation, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Alliance, Hermann Hesse, JK Rowling, Media Reform, new media, Poverty, Progressive Movement, Rwanda, spirituality |
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Andrew's Bio
Job Title:
Executive Director of the HP Alliance
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Favorite Quote:
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.”
JK Rowling
Andrew Slack is creator, co-founder, and Executive Director of the the Harry Potter Alliance which takes a creative approach to activism by mobilizing thousands of kids to spread love and fight for justice in the spirit of the Harry Potter novels. The HP Alliance has been featured in over 200 US publications including Time Magazine, and the front covers of both the Chicago Tribune Business Section and Politico Newspaper. Andrew's HP Alliance piece in the LA Times was the Times' most viewed and emailed piece for two straight days.
In his prior career, Andrew performed comedy at hundreds of venues across the US and produced four videos that have been viewed close to eight million times.
Andrew has studied acting at a conservatory in London, served as a coexistence fellow in Northern Ireland, and done in person interviews with Civil Rights activists from Boston to New Orleans.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, Andrew is dedicated to learning and extrapolating how modern myth and new media can transform our lives both personally and collectively. He lives in both Honolulu and Boston.
Contact Andrew at andrew@thehpalliance.org
