Lyn Mikel Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lyn Mikel Brown
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1956(1956-02-12)
Age	68
Birthplace	Vanceboro
Country	United States
Birth City	Maine
Horoscope	Aquarius

Lyn Mikel Brown Biography

Lyn Mikel Brown is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on February 12, 1956 in Vanceboro, Maine, United States. Lyn Mikel Brown, born February 12, 1956, is an American academic and author. She is also a feminist activist. Colby College, Waterville, Maine, is where she is Professor of Education and Director for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research interests include youth activism, girl development, and sexualization of girls by marketers and the media. She co-founded the Hardy Girls Healthy Women research group and the SPARK activist movement to stop the sexualization of young girls aged 13-22 in the media. She is the author of five books, as well as many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. In 2013, she was inducted into Maine Women’s Hall of Fame.

Brown is a member the National Women’s Studies Association and the National Association for Media Literacy Education. Brown is also a member on the board of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and the executive committee for the Waterville Inclusive Community Project. She is involved in the trauma-informed rural education redesign research/practice partnership known Transforming Rural Experience in Education. Waterville High School Gay, Straight, and Trans Alliance is her co-facilitator. She was a member the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force for Adolescent Girls in 1994 and a consultant to Ms. Foundation for Women’s National Girls’ In 1994. She has been a consultant on numerous film and media projects.

In 2006 she was a co-winner, with Lauren Sterling, of the Groundbreaking Activist Leader Award from the Maine International Film Festival, for co- producing a documentary on the play Ugly Ducklings, which addresses homophobia and youth suicide. She was named College Professor of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International in 2014. She was inducted into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame in 2013.

Brown and her partner, Mark Tappan, also a professor of education at Colby College, have one daughter and reside in Waterville. In 2012 their then- seventeen-year-old daughter Maya, a blogger for SPARK, was one of three girls interviewed by Katie Couric on the Katie show about their objections to the way the media portrays teen girls.

Brown and Carol Gilligan co-authored the first book Meeting at the Crossroads. This focused on the unstudied phase of female development known as the transition from childhood to adulthood. It also introduced the Listener’s Guide as a research tool. It was one of the New York Times Notable Books of the year. Brown interviewed over 400 girls in grades 1-12 to test the hypothesis that gossiping and backstabbing are a result of society’s expectations of a perfect woman. Sharon Lamb and Brown co-authored two books about the sexualization and marketing of teenagers: Packaging Girlhood: Restoring our daughters from marketers’ schemes (2006) and Packaging Boyhood. Saving our sons form superheroes and slackers and other media stereotypes (2009). Mark Tappan was her co-author of the latter book.

Lyn Mikel Brown Net Worth

Lyn Mikel Brown is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lyn Mikel Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Calais High School was her graduation. She studied sociology at Kent University from 1976 to 1977 and psychology at Ottawa University from 1977 to 1979. She earned her Ed.D. at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1983 to 1989. She is a specialist in psychology and human development. From 1989 to 1991 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology & Girls’ Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also taught for one year in the education department.

Brown joined Colby College in 1991 as an assistant professor of education, human development. In 1998, Brown was promoted to associate professor and in 2005 to full professor.

In 2000 she co-founded Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a nonprofit research foundation. Through the HGHW Girls’ Advisory Board, she initiated the online teen blog and youth activism website, Powered by Girl. In 2010 she co-founded, with Deborah Tolman, the SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action Resistance Knowledge) activist movement against the sexualization and objectification of girls aged 13–22 in the media. Among the latter group’s efforts was a 2012 Change.org petition against Lego Friends for targeting girls with a new line of skinny, buxom female characters.

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Top Facts about Lyn Mikel Brown

1. Lyn Mikel Brown is an American writer, activist, and academic.
2. She is a professor of education at Colby College.
3. Brown co-founded the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women.
4. Her research focuses on girls’ development and empowerment.
5. Brown has authored several books, including “Girlfighting” and “Packaging Girlhood.”
6. She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times and NPR.
7. Brown received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1999.
8. She has given talks and workshops across the United States and internationally.
9. Brown’s work challenges gender stereotypes and promotes social justice.
10. She advocates for girls’ voices to be heard in decision-making processes