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, the LA Times, and the front covers of both the Chicago Tribune Business Section and Politico Newspaper.

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.

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

Blog Entries by Andrew Slack

Harry Potter Fans Take On Maine's Proposition One

1 Comments | Posted October 22, 2009 | 02:23 AM (EST)


If Maine's Proposition 1 (aka California's Proposition 8) passes on November 3, the movements for intolerance and bigotry will gain momentum, with voters granting the government the right to strip same-sex couples of the chance to be married. If the proposed legislation is stopped, we will have demonstrated that Americans...

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What Would Dumbledore Do?

10 Comments | Posted July 9, 2009 | 06:00 PM (EST)


Gandhi. MLK. Mother Theresa. The Dalai Lama. Visionaries whose words and deeds have pointed humanity toward a new way of being in the world. Also, Albus Dumbledore.

Yes, yes. I know what you're thinking: Dumbledore is different than the aforementioned figures because Dumbledore was gay. But that's not the only...

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A New Hope to End Genocide

Posted April 17, 2009 | 02:42 PM (EST)


Andrew Slack is 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...

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Harry Potter Fans and the Fight Against "VoldeMedia"

Posted December 17, 2007 | 10:58 PM (EST)


Imagine a world where the government arrests people at random, suspends their right to a free trial, and subjects them to torture in an effort to look "tough on terror." The media is controlled by a privileged few who characterize activists against this gross suspension of habeas corpus as unpatriotic...

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