Adria Brown

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. 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 restorative practice, abolitionist social work, and compassion. 

Prior to the NAP, she spent several years working in various museum education and social work roles including at the Museum Education Roundtable 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 with a Concentration in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities 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.