Adria Brown

Adria Brown (Chickasaw, she/her), is the Director of the Native American Program. In this role, she provides strategic direction, leadership, and consultation for the social, cultural, and personal development of Indigenous students. Through strategic planning and visioning, she works to create educational environments that honor and support Indigenous perspectives and knowledges. In collaboration with the Office of Residential Education, she serves as program advisor for the Native American House, a living-learning community. She serves as the Co-Chair of the Restorative Practice Steering Committee and the Co-Chair of the External Crisis Student Response Committee.

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 served in museum education and social work positions at 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 served as the Co-Vice President of the Museum Education Roundtable from 2020 - 2023 and on the leadership team of Dartmouth's Employee Resource Network - Empowering Women of Color.

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.