User Profile for Rob "Biko" Baker (bbaker)

Bio: Rob "Biko" Baker is a nationally recognized hip-hop organizer, journalist, activist, and scholar. In his home community of Milwaukee, he has organized hip-hop town hall meetings and used the power and agency of hip-hop to inform, mobilize, and motivate young people to participate in civic life. Baker has served as the deputy publicity coordinator and young voter organizer for the Brown and Black Presidential Forum. In 2006, Baker developed, and continues to oversee, the League of Young Voters training program. Baker is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, a frequent contributor to The Source, and serves on Wiretap's editorial board.

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