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Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in the Adult Education, Social Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program. Dr. Brown earned her Ph.D. from UGA. She holds an MPA and a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the University of Akron. She is a member of the AAACE and the Commission for Professors of Adult Education (CPAE). Brown was selected as the 2023 National Freedom Scholar for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
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August 2011 - May 2016
July 2017 - June 2018
June 2019 - October 2022
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As today’s job seekers pursue their need for upskilling, human resource development (HRD) areas must design innovative training. Instruction must consider the affective use of AI in delivering workforce education.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resource Development, Spiral Dynamic Theory, Workforce Development, Upskilling
Lineage-based reparations for Black Americans who are the descendants of formerly enslaved people have been an emerging national debate on social justice in the United States. Researchers collected and analyzed secondary source data. Adults have been engaged in online non-formal learning using Twitter Spaces to discuss the emotionally and political...
Decoupling the Black American historical identity and experience from the curse of a fantastical “colorblind” meme is imperative. Under such subterfuge, the anti-fairness antagonists run the rhetorical gambit with claims that nobody is Black to everybody is Black. Hence, when the dust settles under such benign neglect for the exercise of equality a...
Trust and empathy are key components in the learning environment. However, little is known about Christian educators’ instructional perspectives. Key to the education of Blacks in the church is faith-based Christian educators. For many, their instructional perspectives are imbued with spiritual groundings, faith, and collective community concepts t...
Envision an employee showing up faithfully every day for work but cognitively checked out every minute (i.e., quiet quitting). This article adapts a futurist perspective to describe the adult education pedagogy of experiential learning in juxtaposition to the limitations of behaviorist employee training incentives. The authors conceptually apply Sp...
“Earlier today the U.S. Census Bureau published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) seeking feedback from the public on the timeline to implement the Office of Management and Budget's updated Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 for Federal race and ethnicity data on the American Community Survey (ACS). The information gathered through this FRN will be...
The U.S. Supreme Court, on June 29, 2023, issued a ruling in the case of STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. The decision was anxiously interpreted as an end to race-based Affirmative Action. However, insufficient attention has been given to their discussions, holding that race was an underinclusive categ...
This study aimed to explore the importance of cultural competency within the healthcare industry in the United States. This study aimed to examine the impact of cultural competency on delivering healthcare services within the United States and how workshops and other training modules are needed to create awareness and provide culturally appropriate...
Misogynoir-expressed gender bias and racial discrimination against Black women studies have been limited in contemporary adult education empiricism. This mixed methods pilot used social media posts, interviews, and an online survey to examine the phenomenon. The research volunteers centered on American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS), aged 19 to 58....
We are acknowledging the significance and particularity of U.S. slavery. Our proposal is sensitive to those Black Americans concerned about the unique treatment and status of those whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States of America. We also are aware of resistance to being explicitly called a descendant of "slaves" (Brown & Molina, 2023)...
Central to the viability and relevance of the field of adult education are three aims: (1) basic education and literacy; (2) social justice, civic, and community engagement learning; and (3) workforce and human resource development—although the prominence of one or another of these aims in the field shifts around from time to time. Nevertheless, pr...
The field of Adult and Continuing Education caters its teaching and learning to adults who are 25 years of age and older. This group brings to the higher education environment a unique set of skills and life experiences that require pedagogical delivery that is innovative and motivating. For example, older adults (who are often technology adverse)...
The FHTE (From Here to Equality) Reparationist Quick Guide Response was initially established in October of 2020, as the ADOS Reparationist Quick Guide©, and is designed to be a civic engagement resource for anyone. It allows supporters to take an ownership share in our online social justice advocacy. Authorship is being encouraged from every secto...
The FHTE (From Here to Equality) Reparationist Quick Guide Response was initially established in October of 2020, as the ADOS Reparationist Quick Guide©, and is designed to be a civic engagement resource for anyone. It allows supporters to take an ownership share in our online social justice advocacy. Authorship is being encouraged from every secto...
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The FHTE (From Here to Equality) Reparationist Quick Guide Response was initially established in October of 2020, as the ADOS Reparationist Quick Guide©, and is designed to be a civic engagement resource for anyone. It allows supporters to take an ownership share in our online social justice advocacy. Authorship is being encouraged from...
The ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) Reparationist Quick Guide Response is designed to be a civic engagement resource for anyone and allows supporters to take ownership of our social justice advocacy. Authorship is being encouraged from every sector and community of citizens concerned with the restorative justice of ADOS and the closing of th...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a quintessential adult educator and social justice advocate. The Highlander Research and Education Center has to its training credit Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and Septima Clark who, as attendees, learned strategies and models for adult literacy and civic engagement used to power the American Civil Rights movement. Dr. Kin...
Conference attendees in this concurrent session examined types of developmental thinking among adults who lead other adults in educational settings. Empirical data explores the lived experiences of American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) pursuing restorative justice in America. Emerging political discourse surrounding reparations for ADOS positions...
This mixed-methods research examined civic engagement in Chilean public and private for-profit universities and its representation among study volunteers. Focus groups of graduate students along with in-person interviews with university administrators were conducted. The study also used an online survey, which was completed by 202 participants who...
This mixed method pilot study explored the phenomenon termed misogynoir—expressed gender-based racial animus and discrimination against black women—in direct relationship to their engagement with black men and social media spaces. Spiral Dynamic Theory was the interpretive framework used for assessing adult developmental thinking influenced by meme...
This research examined civic engagement (CE) outcomes among Chilean postgraduates who were educated under highly privatized and entrepreneurial educational systems. Private for-profit and traditional public universities were compared. Spiral Dynamic Theory (SDT), a biopsychosocial systems theoretical framework was used to guide the study design and...
