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Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator. She was a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective and she serves on the national Board of Directors of the Common Fire Foundation. She is a speculative fiction and creative non-fiction writer, and has kept a blog at iambrown.org since 2006 and her work is grounded in healing from the trauma of oppression.

Personal Life

The youngest of three children born of an interracial marriage and younger sister of Adrienne Maree Brown, Autumn is a queer, mixed-race woman who identifies closely with her African, European, and white lineages. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Autumn has also completed specialized study in Theology at Oxford University and the General Theological Seminary of New York. She lives in the Avon Hills of Minnesota with her partner, three children, a dog, and many other forms of wildlife.

Career

Autumn has over 10 years of experience facilitating organizational and strategic development with community-based and movement organizations, and training organizers in Consensus Process, Facilitation , and Racial Justice. She has taught and presented in many places across the country as well as internationally, and has facilitated with the following organizations: Planned Parenthood Federation of America National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs Slow Food USA WE ACT for Environmental Justice Autumn is worker/owner at the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), and served as the interim Executive Director at RECLAIM! , and the Executive Director of the Central Minnesota Sustainability Project. Most recently she has been published in the Procyon Science Fiction Anthology (Tayen Lane Press, 2016), Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016), and Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press, 2015). As well as this, she and her sister (Adrienne Maree Brown ) have an active podcast titled How to Survive the End of the World in which they talk about "learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity."

External links

Offical website Podcast