Faye Anderson

Faye Anderson is a public policy and social media consultant.

I am a new media practitioner who focuses on the intersection of social media and social change. As a citizen journalist, I provide fact-based commentary, and curate news and information that resonate with activists, thought leaders and influencers.

Anderson@Large is included in the Harvard University Web Archive Collection “Capturing Women’s Voices” and “50 Black Blogs for African Americans 2012.”

I was profiled as one of the People of Color Impacting the Social Web 2012 and named one of the top ten race and civil liberties bloggers on Twitter. I was nominated for the 2011 Women’s Media Center Social Media Award.

I am founder of Tracking Change, a web-based platform to promote data-driven models of accountability and transparency. In recognition of my efforts to foster civic engagement, I was awarded a Google fellowship to attend Personal Democracy Forum 2009.

I am chief evangelist for the Cost of Freedom Project, a citizen-led initiative that is developing location-based apps to provide voters with information on how to obtain a voter ID.

During the 2008 presidential election, posts to Anderson@Large were cross-posted to "The Ruckus," a collaboration between Newsweek.com and the Media Bloggers Association. I also wrote an election blog for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday Soapbox, and a daily political blog for AOL Black Voices.

I was credentialed to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention and the "All-American Presidential Forums on PBS."

I wrote and produced "Counting on Democracy," a documentary about the 2000 election debacle that was broadcast on PBS.

Previously, I was a national correspondent for PoliticallyBlack.com. In a 2000 Freedom Forum survey of online sources for political information, I was the most frequently mentioned by African American editors, reporters and columnists. It was noted that my "columns were almost unique in taking advantage of hyperlinking, embedded with links to historical primary sources."

My writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Washington Times, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Time, U.S. News and World Report, the Weekly Standard, National Review and the Ripon Forum.

I was a frequent guest on "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher." My TV appearances also include: Black Voices on AOL TV, "BET Tonight," "Lead Story," "Inside Politics," "TalkBack Live," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity & Colmes," C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," and PBS' "To the Contrary" and "America's Black Forum."

My radio appearances include NPR’s "Sunday Edition," "The Michael Eric Dyson Show," "News & Notes," “Talk of the Nation” and “Tell Me More,” and Sirius Satellite Radio's "The Blog Bunker."