Cassandra Michelle Brown is completing her second Masters degree at the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. She began this degree at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, where she served as a Graduate Assistant and taught an Introduction to Film course from 2009-2010. While at USC, she completed a research project on predominantly African-American theatre students receiving instruction from a predominantly African-American teaching staff at Eau Claire High School in Columbia. Her research was selected to be part of a conference on African American studies, hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, New York. Her January 2011 presentation, entitled “A New Face of TIE” (Theatre in Education), emphasized the need for the construction of social memory and the transmission of cultural knowledge for students of African descent to come from educators of African descent.

Ms. Brown earned her first Masters degree in Performance Studies in Film at New York University in 2006. While in the program, she was selected to serve as a Hemispheric-Institute-in-Culture-and Politics scholar, studying in Lima, Peru during the summer of 2005. After graduation, she served for a year as a Youth Advisor for the Young Adult Borough Center at the South Shore Educational Complex in Brooklyn, New York.

A native of South Carolina, Michelle says she discovered a passion for the arts and social justice in her native state. She is a graduate of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, where she majored in Theatre and minored in Psychology. At Spelman, she was a part of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship group and served as Chaplain of the Spelman Glee Club from 2002-2003.

She is married and thanks her husband and other family members for their loving support. She may be contacted by email.