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Ayanna F. Brown
DR. AYANNA F. BROWN earned her BS from Tuskegee University in secondary education language arts, her MEd in curriculum and instructional leadership, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University in interd...view moreDR. AYANNA F. BROWN earned her BS from Tuskegee University in secondary education language arts, her MEd in curriculum and instructional leadership, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University in interdisciplinary studies: language, literacy, and sociology. Her career in education spans both public and private education, including teaching middle-level English language arts and leading college-readiness planning for urban youth with a consortium between Vanderbilt University and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. She is an associate professor of education and cultural studies and coordinator for the Middle-Level English Language Arts major at Elmhurst University. Brown is also the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles, several book chapters, and is the coeditor of Critical Consciousness in Curricular Research: Evidence from the Field and has presented her research nationally and internationally. She is co-principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants, RESULT and PRIDE, which work to increase BIPOC and linguistically diverse STEM majors to become teachers using literacies through culturally relevant and sustaining STEM practices.view less