Lauren Stockmon Brown

Lauren Stockmon Brown, PhD candidate

Department and School
English Department, Theater & Performance Studies Program, Arts & Sciences

Bio

Lauren Stockmon Brown is a PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Theatre and Performance English and Comparative Literature Department. Lauren received a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a former scholarship recipient of The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, Senegal ‘20. Here, she taught English as a second language while continuing research on the 1960s' "Black Is Beautiful Movement" and the emergence of Pan-Africanism for her podcast, "My Colorful Nana.”

As a passionate storyteller, she is primarily interested in movement building and taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring critical global issues. She is trained in graduate-level courses highlighting the politics of visual arts, innovative education practices, and language teaching, taught by other scholars as part of an international roster of researchers from across Columbia University and New York City.

Advisor
María José Contreras Lorenzin, Theatre Associate Professor

Favorite self-care ritual
Slow Sunday morning walks and meditation

Recommended Podcast
"On Being" with Krista Tippett 

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