Rinku Sen is the President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the Publisher of ColorLines magazine. Previously at ARC, she has served as the Communications Director and the director of the Transnational Racial Justice Initiative, which led ARC’s work on the World Conference Against Racism. From 1988-2000, Rinku was on the staff of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), a national network of organizations of color, where she trained new organizers of color and crafted public policy campaigns around poverty, education, racial and gender equity, health care and immigration issues. She is the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and the editor of We Are the Ones We Are Looking For (U.S. Urban Rural Missions of the World Council of Churches, 1992). She is a board member of the Schott Foundation for Public Education and on the advisory board of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity. She is formerly a member of the board of Independent Press Association, the Tides Center and the Center for Third World Organizing. She was recognized by Ms. Magazine as one of 21 feminists to watch in the 21st century in 1996, the same year that she received the Ms. Foundation for Women's Gloria Steinem Women of Vision award. She was a 2004 Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York and a recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association Dr. Suzanne J. Ahn Award for social justice coverage. She received a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Brown University in 1988 and an M.S. in Journalism at Columbia University (2005).
