Felix Leo Campos
Revson Fellow 2002-2003
Founder, Producer
AfterDark CAT-V Productions
Felix Leo Campos was born and raised in New York’s Spanish Harlem, El Barrio, and is a Nuyorrican (New York born/bred Puerto Rican). Mr. Campos is a community and media activist and a New York City Board or Education teacher. A graduate of Herbert H. Lehman College, he has attended graduate school at Hunter College and CCNY in Anthropology and Bilingual Special Education. Mr. Campos is the founder of AfterDark CAT-V Productions, a non-profit multi-media arts organization which provides media education and services along with video production services, Internet and television exposure to local communities, entrepreneurs, and non-profits. Originated in 1987 and incorporated in 1994, AfterDark CAT-V Productions has produced over 1,000 half-hour programs as part of Arts, Culture, Entrepreneurs - Education and Services (A.C.E.S.), which is telecast primarily on Manhattan Neighborhood Network and can be viewed on the web (http://www.mnn.org). The organization serves as an “electronic soapbox” for alternative views, including such topics as “US Reaction to 911,” “CHARAS/El Bohio: Gentrification and the Melting Pot,” and “The Economic Contribution of the Nonprofit Sector to the Local Economy.” Mr. Campos has also produced and hosted programs for PBS, for radio (WHBI, WBAI, WHLC), for cable television (P.E.G. Access Television) and for the Internet. With Image/Imagen de Nueva New York, Mr. Campos has helped to create a series of panel discussions and interviews with such organizations as the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s, National Association of Puerto Rican/Hispanic Social Workers, and The Humanist Center of Cultures. He also works with local artists and arts organizations to produce media that showcases their work. Mr. Campos is the father of two daughters: the elder is a sophomore at St. Michael’s college, where she is a varsity basketball player; and the younger daughter is a college freshman and two-sport athlete. As a Revson Fellow, Mr. Campos has studied anthropology, and media strategies, and has taken courses at the Graduate School of Business.
(The Revson Fellow’s biography that appears above was last updated in 2002. Revson Fellows may update their biographies on this site by sending email to: revson@columbia.edu)
The Program gave me an opportunity to reflect on my community organizing experience and career options. There, I met other seasoned advocates who believed that all available tools especially street activism and grassroots organizing must be used to advance progressive causes and agendas.
