Adria Brown (Chickasaw, she/her), is the Director of the Native American Program. In this role, she provides direction, leadership, and consultation in the educational, social, cultural, and personal development of Native and Indigenous students at Dartmouth through student advising and mentoring, community engagement and collaboration, and budget administration.
In collaboration with the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Residential Education, she serves as program advisor for the Native American House residential affinity house.
Dedicated to cultivating interdisciplinary learning communities, her work as program director, social worker, and museum educator is rooted in the principles of constructivism, abolitionist social work, and compassion.
She sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum Education Roundtable, which publishes the peer-reviewed Journal of Museum Education. As Co-Vice President and Co-Chair of the Sustainability teams, she supports board recruitment, fundraising, and membership growth initiatives.
Prior to the NAP, she spent several years working in various museum education and social work roles including at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Chickasaw Cultural Center, We Stories, Laumeier Sculpture Park, and the Saint Louis Circuit Attorney's Victim Services Unit.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in Native American Studies and Art History and a Master of Social Work from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She comes from the Keel Family in Tishomingo, and is from a mixed-race (Indigenous and white) family.