Amiri Banks

“Having donned many hats in my short time on this planet, I will dabble in just about anything that allows me to support others in becoming the most free and fulfilled versions of themselves. In that spirit, and given that I am a writer at heart, I will admit that I find summaries like these to be insufferably constrictive. Add to this the fact that I am expected here to curate my image in ways that strike me as limiting and disingenuous, as well as my ambivalence towards the social construct of careerism in the first place, and suffice it to say: Writing a LinkedIn summary has proven to be quite the challenge.

With that being said, I suppose the simplest way to describe myself would be to stress that I have very strong convictions about the universal right of human beings to be treated with dignity, afforded freedom, and allowed to seek fulfillment. Therefore, my only hope is to live in such a way that my work affirms and honors this belief, and that I never relinquish my abiding passion for candor, empathy, education, advising, inquiry, programming and art.”