Mark Andersen

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Mark Andersen is a punk rock activist and author who lives in Washington D.C.. He was born and raised in rural Montana, and moved to Washington D.C. in 1984 to attend graduate school at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Andersen co-founded of the punk activist organization Positive Force D.C. in 1985. He is the director of the We Are Family Group, a division of Washington, DC's Northwest Settlement house. In 2006, Andersen founded "We are Family" a senior outreach network of Northwest Settlement House. "We Are Family" serves seniors in the Shaw, North Capitol Street and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington, DC. They aspire to bring advocacy, services, organizing, and companionship into the homes of the elderly, while helping to build friendships across boundaries like race, class, religion, age, culture, and sexual orientation.

He is the author of two books, Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitol (2001)[1] and All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion (2004). [2]

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• Positive Force D.C.
• Interview with Mark Andersen, co-author of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital, by Ryan Parks
• Mark Andersen interview and guest DJ spot on DISSONANCE Radio CPR, June 2007