Monthly Speaker Series: Dr. Barbara Brown

Our last presentation of 2024 is with long-time Coalition member, Dr. Barbara Brown as our guest speaker.

About Dr. Barbara Brown:

I’ve happily spent my adult life as an educator, first as a middle school teacher, then as a professor at the University of Botswana and later at Mount Holyoke College. While in Botswana, I published the first significant study that focused on Batswana women. On returning home, I became deeply involved in the Boston anti-apartheid movement. Our greatest success was to pass a law requiring the state to divest from South Africa--a first in the US. Our victory appeared in several South African newspapers. 

For the last thirty years I have led two programs in public education, both on topics that are often overlooked. The first program was on Africa: I became the director of public education at Boston University’s African Studies Center. The program was wildly ambitious: to correct and enhance American knowledge of…