Lauren Stockmon Brown is an advanced PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature (Theatre and Performance Studies). She is an internationally focused creative researcher and educator, exploring global challenges through interdisciplinary practice. At Columbia, she has held teaching appointments as a Writing Instructor and completed fellowships in research and academic administration across the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of General Studies, and Columbia Business School.

She earned her BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is a former recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Senegal (2020), appointed by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In Senegal, she taught English as a second language while advancing research on the 1960s “Black Is Beautiful” movement and the rise of Pan-Africanism for her podcast, My Colorful Nana. As a passionate storyteller, she is especially interested in movement building and interdisciplinary approaches to pressing global issues.