Alex Dibranco Email & Phone Number

Co-founder and founding executive director of woman- and nonbinary-led intersectional feminist organization that serves as a resource for scholars and media seeking to understand male supremacist mobilizations and a strategic partner for social justice groups working to confront the impact of male supremacist ideology and organizing on the ground, in policy, and culture.As a volunteer executive director and board member, raised budget from scratch to $20,000 over the first two years, and then to a budget of more than $170,000 for 2023 and transitioned to part-time staff, through grants, cosponsorships, individual donors, and conference registration fees. Created budget, wrote grant applications and reports, oversaw consultant.Organized annual virtual conferences co-hosted with the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies on research on supremacism and authoritarianism, with dozens of presenters representing a span of international scholarship on these topics.Organized virtual and in-person anti-supremacist training institutes and webinars for social justice organizers, and provided input on resources and concepts, spoke at webinars and events, or otherwise collaborated with social justice organizations such as Storyline Partners, Western States Center, Political Research Associates, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Drag Story Hour.Interviewed by media including New York Times and NPR on topics such as misogynist incels and anti-abortion supremacism.Oversaw development of fellowship and mentorship programs with dozens of researchers working on male supremacism, including recruitment of global cohort of fellows, development of curriculum, and connecting experts with opportunities for media and speaking.Managed interns and contractors for communication, research, editorial, social media, finance, administration, fundraising, and other support. Set ethical policy to pay interns at $15 while organizations otherwise operated as an unpaid working board.

Fellowship with emerging organization working to counter authoritarianism and support democracy for the 22nd century. Supported research on male supremacism and advancing supremacism studies as a focus for the field.

Dissertation researches the founding of the U.S. New Right in the 1970s, and its growth and increasing power through the mid-1990s at the national and state levels. My research considers the role of serial entrepreneurs, conservative foundations, and a network of people and institutions from think tanks to campus organizations to advocacy groups.My other research has looked at the role of misogyny in right-wing movements and the 2016 Trump campaign; reproductive justice and sexual violence; the competing forces with the U.S. Christian Right; and nonprofit fields, strategy, and management.Master's Paper: Try Defying Gravity: Field Forces in the Reproductive MovementsField Exam: The Organizational Infrastructure of Social Movements

Berkeley, Ca

As a visiting student researcher at Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, helped organize a one-day symposium followed by support an inaugural right-wing studies conference in 2019 on the UC Berkeley campus, transitioning to hosting conference online with onset of Covid. Created and managed social media profiles. Facilitated research working group.

Supported long-standing progressive monthly magazine as interim managing editor for five months. Managed production spreadsheet; edited short- and long-form article for magazine on topics including immigration, labor, transgender, and racial justice; supported fact-checking; proofed issue in InDesign. Worked with executive editor on a special "takeover" issue with Movement 4 Black Lives.

Temporary contract to support social media for reproductive rights, health, and justice news website.

Fellowship supported research on misogynist incels, dangerous speech, and violence.

Berkeley, Ca

Supported start-up university program aimed toward improving and expanding engaged scholarship toward better research and action to support democracy. Oversaw website development, created and managed social media profiles, edited engaged scholarship reports, supported event planning for in-person institute on UC Berkely campus.

Provide feedback on each issue of The Public Eye quarterly, suggest article concepts, review articles related to reproductive justice. Published articles on conservative feminism and male supremacism.

Somerville, Ma

Ran Communications Department for social justice think tank that studies the right-wing, researching reproductive justice, LGBTQ rights, racial and immigrant justice, civil liberties, and economic justice.Led process to review organizational brand, leading to updated tagline and logo, new website with blog and integrated social and multimedia, and consistent design templates for print and web publications. Wrote or edited communications materials, coordinated interviews and appearances, developed cross-promotional relationships, and organized briefings.Hired and managed PR and website contractors, interns, and new Program Coordinator. Chaired hiring of Editor-in-Chief and replacement Communications Director.Contributed to research and editorial meetings and agenda-setting. Provided input and editing for major reports on the Right’s religious liberty argument, anti-LGBTQ agenda in Africa, and global ex-gay therapy. Editor of Roe anniversary edition of Defending Reproductive Justice: An Activist Resource Kit.

Board Chair February 2014-April 2015. Vice Chair and Governance Committee Chair April 2015-October 2017. I worked on improving governance, board development, and program oversight; addressed financial and fundraising issues; and drawing on my background in social justice and researching right-wing movements to help the SSA achieve its mission of empowering generations of social change leaders.Chaired 2014 Strategic Planning committee, developing a new mission statement and five-year strategic plan better reflecting the organization's priority of supporting students' growth as advocates and leaders of secular, social justice, and intersectional causes.

New York, Ny

Project manage creation of new website, hiring and overseeing web design and development firm.

New York, Ny

Conducted research for state profiles on topics related to sexuality education, sexual health, and abstinence-only programs. Co-authored It’s Perfectly Traditional: Christian Right Joined by Common Core Opposition. Managed social media.

Worked with CEO on managing start-up, developing mission and branding, web design, and outreach.

Supported individuals and non-profits in launching and running their own women’s rights campaigns. Identified potential women’s right campaigns and petition creators interested in targeting injustices in their communities, campuses, or globally. Investigated campaigns through online research, interviews, and collaborating with non-profits.Designed organizing strategy to promote promising campaigns and drive them toward victory: wrote blog posts and press releases, represented campaigns to media, ran social media actions, solicited and edited guest blogs, created cross-posting relationships, organized offline actions, negotiated with targets.

Initially helped oversee all cause blogs, hired team of freelancer bloggers, helped hire and onboard additional editors, wrote style guide materials, and directly supported Executive Editor’s work.Specialized in running Women’s Rights, Immigrant Rights, Education, and Human Trafficking blogs. Managed two dozen bloggers, edited 25 submissions/week, followed news and wrote 4-5 posts/day, promoted petition campaigns.Researched the Jim Crow-era gang-rape of Mrs. Recy Taylor; successfully pushed Alabama to pass official apology legislation for her mistreatment.

Research for Joshua Phillips for his upcoming (now out) book None of Us Were Like This Before, which investigated the occurrence of and motivation for torture by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Conducted online research, used LexisNexis, and interviewed think tanks and human rights NGOs in order to uncover and catalogue instances of torture in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other tasks.

New York, Ny

Summer intern, then temporary fact-checker. Wrote for print and web (online article on the student sex column movement); conducted research for staff, particularly on gender, sex, and sexuality; assisted with "Nation Associates" program.

Wrote, edited, copyedited, and fact-checked for The Public Eye. Article on abstinence-only provisions in PEPFAR legislation. Researched Islamophobic and anti-Semitic campus incidents, reproductive justice, and LGBT rights.

Primary duties as publications intern. Reviewed grant applications; managed correspondence; compiled 60-page “Publications Guide.” Helped plan CP/The Nation Journalism Training Day. Wrote for the web magazine, blogged, fact-checked, and contributed to planning and story meetings.

Ph.D., M.Phil, M.A., Sociology

B.A., English (Creative Writing, High Honors), Minor: Government

Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Free Press, Dartmouth Coalition for Progress, Palaeopitus senior leadership society; Untamed feminist.

Fall 2007, International Relations

Government foreign study program.