My grandmother’s art inspired me to pursue an Afrocentric PhD. in Theater and Performance

Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University '2028 

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.”