Rinku Sen
PopTech 2009
“The mainstream media—and may I say also much of the alternative media—has no idea how racism works structurally,” says Rinku Sen. “So any race coverage is always about what someone said about someone else.”
As president and executive director of the Applied Research Center, Sen is devoted to training journalists and corralling them in the effort to create a more inclusive America.
Sen has written extensively for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Forbes.com, AlterNet, Tompaine.com, Jack and Jill Politics, and thegrio.com. She is the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, a book that compellingly argues for the U.S. to enact a more open immigration system.
Prior to joining ARC, Sen was co-director of the Center for Third World Organizing. In 2008, she won the Progressive Leadership Award from Citizen Action of New York and was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Sen is also the publisher of ColorLines, a national newsmagazine on race and politics.
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