The Directory of Literary Agents
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Literary Agent Directory
Important: Visit each agent’s website (links in their listings below) to see if they’re open to submissions before querying.
Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland
Biography
Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland is a literary agent with Odom Media Management. 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. As an editor, she has worked with New York Times bestselling authors, speakers, and activists on books and digital training products on topics of intersectionality, racial and gender justice, decolonization, identity, and community organizing. She received her B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and M.A. from Columbia University in American Studies focusing her research on gender, race, and media.
She is looking to work on book projects aimed at progressive structural change across social, culture, and political institutions. She enjoys working with activists, organizers, scholars, and trainers on topics that provide actionable frameworks to redistribute wealth, power, and resources to create a more equitable future. Right now, she is most focused on non-fiction books about racial capitalism and closing the racial wealth gap, decolonization, and an intersectional, gender-inclusive approach to equity and equality.
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This literary agent represents:
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NONFICTION: Business * Cultural/Social Issues * Current Events/Affairs * Economics * Ethnic * Gay/Lesbian * History * Memoir * Money/Finance * Multicultural * Narrative * Politics * Pop Culture * Self-Help/Personal Development * Women’s Issues *
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