Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland is a literary agent with Odom Media Management. She is an Associate Agent at Odom Media Management. Throughout her career, she has worked in independent media aimed at providing tools, resources, and frameworks that support movement-building. Embracing the expanse of multimedia across book and digital media, she has worked with award-winning and bestselling authors, scholars, activists, and speakers on topics of decolonization, intersectionality, feminism/s, economic justice and racial capitalism, labor movements, racial and gender justice, identity, and community organizing. She earned her B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and M.A. from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in American Studies focusing her research on representations of women of color in media.

Driven by her political commitment to producing media in support of collective liberation, Shabnam is most interested in working on books that are agitating and fearlessly challenging systems of oppression. Shabnam is most moved by writers who show how political theory can come to life, whether through offering pathways to healing, personal and collective, or through modes of resistance guided by history. She enjoys collaborating with authors who are exploring the full meaning of freedom, running the gamut from community-building in the forms of food, libations, and intentional gatherings, to world-building and the artist’s role in making revolution irresistible, to organizing efforts that confront capitalist, patriarchal systems. Right now, she is primarily working on adult non-fiction, but is interested in text and visual representations of what it means to be and get free.