Ms. Brown’s expertise and counsel have been sought by many organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation’s Arts & Humanities Program. She serves as a trustee of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and the Media Performing Arts Center. Ms. Brown is a member of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Arts & Business Council and other non-profit organizations.
She has convened three International Conferences of Black Dance Companies, facilitated the Smithsonian Institution’s Conference of Black Dance Companies and served as a consultant to East Coast Committee of Festival 2000, the San Francisco Bay Area Cultural Initiative, the NEA "Dance on Tour" ad hoc committee and the Kennedy Center Adult Education
Task Force.
Ms. Brown was honored as one of the "Dance Women; Living Legends" during a four-day series sponsored by New York area presenters, in tribute to five African-American pioneer women who founded distinguished modern-dance companies with deep roots in black communities around
the country.
Ms. Brown’s efforts on behalf of dance excellence belie a much larger contribution to the arts and the community. She remains a tireless advocate and spokesperson and is a model of tenacity, hope and discipline. She is the proud mother of daughters Marlisa and Dannielle, who teach at her school, The Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, and three grandaughters, Jade Greene, Amari Brown Swint and Joan Joelle Brown.
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