Frank Leon Roberts is a public intellectual and award-winning community organizer. At 26 years old, he is a Ford Foundation Fellow and former Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (Spring 2009). He holds the distinction of being one of only 35 doctoral candidates in the United States to receive the 2009 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the nation’s premiere scholarly appointment for minority students at the Ph.D. level.

A vibrant cultural commentator, he has been a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Village Voice, The Daily Voice and The San Francisco Chronicle. He received his B.A. in English and African American Studies from The Gallatin School at NYU. He also holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is nearing the completion of his Ph.D. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Emory University.

Outside of his career in the Ivory Tower, he has held posts as a Public Policy Fellow at the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and in community based organizations such as the People of Color in Crisis (POCC) and GMHC. He is also the former special assistant to famed attorney Johnnie Cochran. In 2003, Roberts co-founded the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights and social justice organization based in Washington, D.C.

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