Nakia D. Hansen, J.D.
is a sleepy social media strategist living in Brooklyn.
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About
Nakia D. Hansen is a social media strategist trained in the law and committed to social justice. Focused on strengthening online communities around brand personality, products and ideals, Nakia seeks to integrate content, interactive tools and authentic voice in successful proactive and reactive social media campaigns.
Nakia has combined her legal and online advocacy skills with her passion for the public interest, resulting in rich and varied experiences including working with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas - criminal division. On occasion, Nakia consults with nonprofit organizations on how to best utilize new media technology in their advocacy efforts. She has done several presentations and a keynote on the subject including “Social Media 101 for Domestic Violence Advocates” and “Running on All Cylinders: Using Integrated Communications to Achieve Advocacy Goals.”
Presently, Nakia works as the Director of Social Media Strategy for the College Board, a nonprofit, mission-driven organization committed to excellence and equity in education. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to improving societal and community responses to domestic violence and, ultimately, preventing its occurrence.
A self-described social media junkie, Nakia is active on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram, and occasionally finds time to post to her blog. With an appetite for travel and new experiences, she has traveled across the U.S. and abroad to Japan, Thailand, and Iceland. Her other interests include cooking, social shopping, rowing, and dance.
Nakia obtained her J.D. from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in 2009 and passed the July 2010 New York State bar exam. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in African & African-American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and is on track to complete a Master’s in Public Administration from Marist College in 2012.
presentations/trainings
Engaging Print and Online Media to Your Advantage
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence | 2011Writing for the Web
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence | 2011Is Three a Crowd? Getting the Most Out of Third-party and Social Giving Sites for Your Nonprofit, Hosted by Convio
- Social Media Week NYC | 2011Social Media for Social Good
- Soapbox, Inc. Feminist Winter Term | 2011Joining the Conversation: The Importance of Engaging Audiences Through Social Media
- Michigan Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence Annual Meeting | 2010Friend, Fan, and Follow: An Introduction to the Social Web
- Michigan Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence Annual Meeting | 2010
Media 101
- Planned Parenthood Youth Organizing Summit | 2010Running on All Cylinders: Using Integrated Communications to Achieve Advocacy Goals
- Planned Parenthood Organizing & Policy Summit | 2010Utilizing Social Media Tools to Engage the Community
- Domestic Violence Awareness Project Advisory Group | 2009- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence | 2011Social Media 101 for Domestic Violence Advocates
- National Resource Center on Domestic Violence| 2009
presspublished- Parlour Magazine, Weekly Column, Present- Tokyo Adrift. Crud Magazine, January 2009
- Nowhere to Unpack. Weekly Column, The Daily Tar Heel, 2002-2003certifications
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Info
- Director of Social Strategy at The College BoardOnline Media | Greater New York City Area, USExperience
- Jun 2011 - PresentDirector, Social Media Strategy / The College Board
Education-
2009 - 2012Marist CollegeMaster of Public Administration
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2009 - 2009Temple University Japan (テンプル大学ジャパンキャンパス)Law
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2006 - 2009Temple University - James E. Beasley School of LawJuris Doctorate in Law
Activities: Black Law Students Association; Rubin-Presser Public Interest Scholar -
1999 - 2003University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBA in African/African-American Studies
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Tweets
- #AmericanIdol is theee worst offender of that extra drawn out did-he-or-didn't-he-make-it reality tv pre-reveal pause. Ugh.
- I can't with people who post pictures from decades past and ask "WHAT HAPPENED" referring to current popular culture. #getoffmylawn
- Can't believe it's only 3:30.
- The one twitter account per email thing is bothersome.
- @chansonthegreat you it's a delicate balance when black folks sing
- @chansonthegreat if he does it again it's going to be cringe-worthy. I hate to say we're toeing minstrelsy and pandering territory.
- The POTUS singing at fundraisers -- I was geeked about it at first but I'm over it
- Want to plan a trip to Croatia but the flights are not cooperating. Grrrr.
- I can't figure out why Instagram bothers people who are not on Instagram so much. It's easy to avoid, ya know.
- why are people spelling out O.D. like "odee" (or some other abominable spelling) nowadays?
- How much will your birth control cost you 'til menopause? Find out with this calculator via @MotherJones http://t.co/qgP3v4nH
- don't folks know that "we need to talk" is a terrible thing to email/text without context or elaboration?!
- One thing social media can't fix is your company's poor service or product. Fix the product, then we can work on fixing perception.
- @brokeymcpoverty I'm afraid to listen to it. Th e original is the jam. I'm scared I'mma like it too much and I'm so ANTI right now!
- @brokeymcpoverty girl, what are you talking about? LOL
- J Crew's "Mona" pumps are the perfect shape and come in so many great colors but I feel they're overpriced for what they are. *pouts*
- WTF Does a Kesha look like? I mean, Suzie don't look like a Suzie. #bbwives
- BYW, so far I've survived my afeared #DAF6 sightings. But it's only 11:26 pm.
- @iKilan ha. That was @shannboogie's Easter manicure. Lol
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Posts
- Feb 21, 12
The death of pop star Whitney Houston resulted in more than 2.5 million tweets in just the first hour after her passing was announced, the proliferation of numerous fan tribute videos, and most regrettably, the resurgence of the term “crack whore.” I personally hate the term and never use it along with others like “crackhead” and “crackish.” My self-inflicted ban comes from the belief that being addicted to crack is not something to be taken lightly. Furthermore, “crack whore,” a term reserved for women offering their bodies for a taste of the drug, has ...
- Feb 21, 12
There’s a home video somewhere on VHS that shows a pre-pubescent Nakia proclaiming that she wants to be the first black female President of the United States … and a model. Very cute, if not some indication of future megalomania, but I would not wish for job of POTUS today after seeing what President Obama has had to endure in the latest of many battles over birth control. Here’s the rundown:
- Feb 17, 12
Sometimes it seems like the forces opposed to Planned Parenthood are really engaged in some super genius reverse psychology aimed at increasing individual donations to the organization. Of course it’s just wishful thinking on my part but that’s exactly what happened when anti-choice lawmakers inCongress tried to de-fund Planned Parenthood in early 2011; the organization received more than $2M in donations. Now, it’s the Susan G. Komen Foundation that is raising goo-gobs of money for Planned Parenthood while taking a hit to their own reputation, to boot.
- Feb 03, 12
Believe it or not, having an abortion can be safer than childbirth. I know that for even the most pro-choice of us all that statement can seem pretty incredible, but a recent study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology grounds the assertion in reality.
- Jan 31, 12
Forget what will.i.am and other neanderthals like him have to say about a woman who comes equipped with her own condoms– it’s 2012 and the smart, sassy, sexy women out there know that having our own protection on deck is one of the many ways we control of our health and lives. The conversation is no longer whether you should have condoms, but rather which kind and where do you keep them? I was pondering the latter question as moved into a new apartment and unpacked the old zippered pouch I ...
- Feb 21, 12
I rarely get wrapped up in the world of entertainment “news” and gossip but something about this rash of recent, high-profile celebrity divorces has me upset. In 2011, we saw racks on racks of celeb divorces – Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson; Ashton and Demi; J.Lo and Marc Anthony; Mel Gibson and Robyn Moore; Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver; Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries; and Katy Perry and Russell Brand. While those couples certainly have problems of their own, they’ve gone largely overlooked by black folks. However, black gossip blogs, urban radio and ...
- Feb 17, 12
What if I told you that there was going to be a law that would prevent anyone from aborting a child because of its sex or race? Your gut reaction would probably be favorable – even if you’re prochoice you probably don’t think the Ob-Gyn’s “it’s a girl” proclamation is reason enough to terminate a pregnancy. But what if I told you that the matter wasn’t so simple and that there were some potentially negative and harmful repercussions if this policy were to become the law of the land?
- Feb 03, 12
It’s a moment we rarely see – those for and against a woman’s right to choose how and when she’ll become a parent are agreeing on something. Both sides are peeved at the Obama Administration for its treatment of the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation that Plan B One-Stepemergency contraception (aka the “morning after pill”) be made available over-the-counter to individuals under the age of 17. Both sides are accusing President Obama of playing politics to appeal to conservatives as we approach the 2012 election.
- Jan 31, 12
I am a proud, self-proclaimed progressive feminist. What that means is that every day, I advocate for the safety, health and advancement of women and girls worldwide. I challenge pre-determined gender roles and support the right of individuals to live according to their own definition. At a more basic level, however, I believe in equality of the sexes. You know, “anything you can do, I can do better,” and all that jazz. So you’d think I’d be appalled at any law that fundamentally treats women differently from men. Uneasy, yes. ...
- Jan 31, 12
Whitney Houston once famously sang, “I believe the children are our future,” and as cheesy as that line may seem, it’s the plain truth. But what does it mean for our future if the children are poor, sickly, and uneducated? According to the Guttmacher Institute, birthrates — mostly unintended pregnancies — for women living in poverty are increasing while fertility rates among wealthier, more educated women are decreasing. This means that increasingly, America will be populated by those born into circumstances that statistically place them at risk. What, then, do we do about our ...
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Valentine’s Day always precedes one of my absolute favorite holidays, February 15th, “National Half-Off Every Piece of Red-Foil-Wrapped Sugary Crap in CVS Day,” the day I really get out there and do my bit for America’s economy. (And before you fire off your angry tweetmails, I’m well aware that February 15th is also Susan B. Anthony Day, when schoolkids learn about women’s suffrage, except in Texas where they learn about America’s proud heritage of uncirculated dollar coins).
I love how full to fucking brimming these comments are with people making sweeping comments about how “stupid” women are, etc. Because that’s completely where the focus needs to be in conversations about domestic abuse: on women’s stupidity rather than on the abusive behaviour perpetrated and sanctioned by men. You know what the problem with the valorisation of Chris Brown is? The problem is that nobody, including and especially other men, is stopping men from abusing women. Like. Yes. These status updates are a mess and it’s fucked up and not okay when women glamorise or tacitly endorse abuse but let’s be real here: these women are not posting in a vacuum and they didn’t create this idea; they’re posting in the context of a culture where domestic abuse is routinely forgiven and washed away, where music execs and producers and awards shows and etc. will put you on a stage and give you a Grammy three years after you put your girlfriend in the hospital — they’re posting in the context of a culture which tells them implicitly and explicitly to think like this. And somehow they’re the ones being critiqued — not the power structures which keep Chris Brown and Michael Fassbender and a metric fuckton of other abusers in business. These comments are a god damn mess. A mess.
Kick-ass comment from Mary O’Donnell on BuzzFeed’s 25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions To Chris Brown At The Grammys…educated wives also get better sex, whatever their partner’s educational level, according to the sexuality researchers Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter. They are more likely to receive as well as give oral sex, to use a greater variety of sexual positions and to experience orgasm regularly.
African-American women are less likely to marry than white women overall, but educated black women are considerably more likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts. As of 2008, 70 percent of African-American female college graduates had married, compared with 60 percent of high school graduates and just 53 percent of high school dropouts.
People can’t seem to decide whether we’re getting married or not. But here’s the latest via Marriage Suits Educated Women - NYTimes.comThink you need a man to complete your life? Screw that! Barkeep… THREE white wine spritzers over here!!!
There are so many individual reasons to loathe Duke, both old and new. We hate them for “The Stomp,” for Coach K’s foulmouthed surliness and for Ryan Kelly’s complete lack of chin. We hate them for their obnoxious, overpraised fans and for their crappy faux-Gothic campus built on the back of the stained teeth and tarred lungs of a cigarette empire. We hate them for Austin Rivers, who decided to give himself a nickname.
Why we hate duke via The Daily Tar Heel- Dear Starbucks,
This doesn’t happen often but I am very annoyed with you. I don’t understand why, after so much innovation and goo-gobs of profit, you haven’t thought of this yet. What is the deal with everyone buying a coffee, turning around to the soy/cream/sugar/cinnamon/napkin/stirrer station, and immediately dumping out about a third of their scalding hot beverage into the trash hole?
I guess some of my frustration should be directed at those individuals but they’re only doing what they need in order to get the appropriate amount of sweetener-to-cream ratio so that they might enjoy their Starbucks fix. No, the blame is with you. Luckily, I have two suggestions that, taken individually or together, could not only relieve my anxiety but actually result in a better experience and cost-savings for all.
- Stop filling the damned coffee cups up to the brim. Not even a person who takes their coffee black and bitter wants the threat of 3rd degree burns when the coffee deigns to jump right through the lid. (The lids that come with an opening and no neat flip-tab thingy like at Dunkin’, by the way)
How about you LISTEN when someone says “leave room for milk” or make the default space about 2 inches from the top. People who want their cups precariously full can ask. It’s much easier to add coffee than it is to take it away. - Make a small adjustment to the sugar/napkin/stirrer station (ugh, what is that called?) and insert a receptacle dedicated to liquids. I can’t imagine what a shit task it must be to take out the trash at Starbucks. In the best case, you get a light bag full of empty sugar packets, brown napkins, wooden stirrers and plastic sandwich wrap. On a normal day, you can add the weight of nearly a hundred cups of coffee relieved of their top thirds of volume. On a bad day, you’ve elected to remove the trash right after someone has dumped their 300 degree Pike Roast into a Glad bag and now you’re headed to the ER.
A liquid receptacle would help with clean up. It could cool the coffee. It could keep me from the near scalding I received as I reached to dispose of my stirrer at the same time a guy was trying to get his “tall bolds” just right.
Thanks for listening, SB.
- Stop filling the damned coffee cups up to the brim. Not even a person who takes their coffee black and bitter wants the threat of 3rd degree burns when the coffee deigns to jump right through the lid. (The lids that come with an opening and no neat flip-tab thingy like at Dunkin’, by the way)
Selling for an average price of $10 or less, it is easy to see why Moscato is so popular. “Moscato is a good gateway wine for people that don’t typically drink wine. It’s sweet and it’s not intimidating,” said Megan Metcalf, editor of US trade publication Wine & Spirits Daily, adding, “People who would have drunk White Zinfandel are now drinking Moscato.” This is backed up by US wine consumption figures, showing a significant drop in sales of white zinfandel and huge increases in sales of Moscato.
*Cartoon Eye Pop*
Sentenced To Date of the Day: A man charged with domestic violence was ordered by a Broward bond court judge to go on a date with his wife.
According to the official police report, Plantation resident Joseph Bray pushed his wife and put his hands around her neck during an altercation that began when he didn’t wish her a happy birthday.
In lieu of setting a bond or sentencing Bray to jail time, Judge John “Jay” Hurley told the 47-year-old to “go home, pick up his wife, get dressed, take her to Red Lobster.” He also suggested the couple go bowling after and then seek counseling.
Explaining the bizarre sentence, Hurley said he did not feel the domestic violence charge was serious enough to warrant more serious release terms. He was also persuaded to be lenient by Bray’s wife, who said she was not injured nor in danger of becoming injured.
[sentinel / myfoxhouston.]
I…I am so at a loss right now that I’m just going to resort to giffing my feelings.
I just really hate everything.
Today, I think the effort that we put into behaving in front of white people would be far better served elsewhere.
- Shorter Susan G. Komen Foundation: "Sike, we was just playin!"
I hate to say that “I hate to say ‘I told you so’” so I won’t. I know you see it. It’s crazy how things work out but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — don’t fuck with Planned Parenthood. 1 out of 5 American women have visited Planned Parenthood. I can’t understand why people who hate contraception, hate a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body, and most of all, hate what a woman in control of her sexuality means for their own place in society, continue to underestimate the importance of Planned Parenthood. I believe the late Heavy D said it best: “If you can’t see what I can see / you’re blind baby, you’re blind from the fact.”
Catch up on what went down:
Why Susan G. Komen Is Making You Choose Between Breast Cancer And Women’s Health - Let me tell you how the Komen mess is hurting women, especially low-income women, more than it’s hurting Planned Parenthood who is winning this “war” in the public arena.
Komen apologizes for ‘recent decisions,’ pledges to continue funding Planned Parenthood - Like I said, Komen took all of the hits on this one — losing donations, supporters and even its own executives. They HAD to tuck their tails and apologize. Oh, it’s also the right thing to do.
Planned Parenthood raised $400,000 in 24 hours - See?
Ultimately, the anti-choice bullies are still sitting around their fake dismembered fetus signs pouting and grumbling. Why? Shouldn’t they be happy that they pushed Komen to publicly shade Planned Parenthood? Some folks love misery and are never satisfied. Exhibit A: They think it’s all a conspiracy between Komen and Planned Parenthood! Let me tell you from experience… the good people who work at PP would have loved nothing more than to NOT have to work on this for about seven days straight. Conspiracies are too much work.
My thoughts on the “New Birth Crowns Eddie Long as King” video:
- 00:17 - That scroll is NOT over 300 years old. It just isn’t. Nobody in that entire room owns anything 300 years old.
- 00:39 - Dude says this scroll – rescued from the concentration camps – is priceless. Then he proceeds to tell us how much it costs - $60K.
- 1:05 - Pull off the foreskin? When have you ever used that phrase outside of a bris?
- 1:10 - That “Belt of Righteousness” looks suspiciously similar to the safety belt on the Cyclone at Coney Island.
- 1:36 - I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to touch 300 year old lambskin with your bare hands.
- I’m very confused by this Jewish preacher right now.
- 3:12 – We can’t be bestowing royal titles upon dudes with s-curls left and right like this. Jewish Preacher man even said Long had a “king chromosome”. Dear geneticists, please research this.
- 4:02 – Another lesson in genetics. Man has 22 chromosomes to correspond to the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Man just added an extra chromosome in there somewhere along the way to be cute I guess. Jewish Preacher would call adding a chromosome “kingly” I bet. Most of us just call it Down’s Syndrome.
- 4:26 – What is long looking at so hard? Please don’t tell me the Bishop can read 300+ year old Hebrew etched into lambskin.
- 4:56 – Come ON, son! There’s no way it’s kosher (see what I did there) to wrap a shady black bishop up in an alleged 300+ year old Hebrew scroll purported to contain “God’s government”. NO WAY. The greasiness of Long’s hair alone has got to be 100x worse than touching the scroll with your hand (forbidden). Kings get a pass I guess. Shame on your grandma for giving this mess a standing O.
- 5:19 – Is this a magic show? I’m hoping that when they open that scroll burrito R. Kelly will appear and start steppin’ in the name of love. It just seems right, ya know?
- 6:40 – Aw shit! A belt and a scarf! Is this Christmas? I thought Jews didn’t celebrate?
- 6:50 – I know this must be offensive to a whole lot of somebodies in the Jewish community.
- 7:14 – I just don’t understand. How did these guys get picked for this “privilege”?
- 8:08 – Nicole better sang! (not really)
- 8:51 – At this point, even Long looks confused by what’s happening. Or it’s just gas.
- 10:15 – How many people are in there witnessing this farce? I bet the collection plate was POPPING!
- 10:24 – That’s not prayer, that’s a nap.
- 10:52 – I think it’s hilarious that Jewish Preacher is trying his darndest to get this black ass Atlanta church to sing along with that dry, Christian soft-rock music. Has he even been to a black church before?
- 11:24 – Silver lining: Long hasn’t said a word the entire time.
- 12:54 – I hate the lighting guy. I hate the fact they have a lighting guy.
- 13:03 – Right here, you can see that the scarf Long is wearing has gold glitter on it. Is that supposed to be official Hebrew holy wear? I call shenanigans. Then again, gotta keep it funky. We ARE in Atlanta, people. #ShebySheree
- 13:43 – Again, me and this lighting guy are going to fight.
- I wonder… do they refer to the refreshments fellowship following service as the “After Birth”?
Email from Planned Parenthood. Subject line: “Wow. Just wow” re: Susan G. Komen fund pulling funding for breast cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood health centers. Love that snarky activist tone there. Also love the cute black girl in the pics on the bottom. Hey boo!
Oh, if you agree with the content of this supporter letter, you can sign on to the letter yourself. Do it.
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