Dr. Brown is an associate professor of Journalism and founding director of the LIFT Project -- an engaged research effort aimed at identifying networks of trusted messengers in Black communities in the Midwest. She specializes in analyses of media representations and narrative change, social movements and activism, and identity and political psychology. Dr. Brown has published in the Washington Post, Nieman Lab, Columbia Journalism Review and The Conversation. Dr. Brown is an associate editor for the International Journal of Press/Politics, and serves on the editorial board for Journalism Practice. Prior to joining the academy, she was a photojournalist, writer, and later a non-profit public relations professional.