Background
He was born and raised in rural Montana, and moved to Washington District of Columbia
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Mark Andersen
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Johns Hopkins University.
Career
In 1984 to attend graduate school at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (School of Advanced International Studies). Andersen co-founded the punk activist organization Positive Force District of Columbia in 1985, and the We Are Family Senior Outreach Network in 2004. We Are Family aspires 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.
Politics
He is the author of two books, Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation"s Capitol (Soft Skull Press, 2001) and All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion (2004), and a contributor to several others including Sober Living Foreign the Revolution: Hardcore, Radical Politics, and Straight Edge (2010), We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews (Expanded Edition) (2008), Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood (2011), and Rock Politics: Popular Musicians Who Changed the World (2012).
