CMEI Colloquium
Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education
February 16, 2017
In this talk, Lyn Mikel Brown considered commodified versions of girl power and lean-in feminism as barriers to girls' civic engagement and political participation. She drew from interviews with girl and women activists and her work with SPARK Movement to advocate for intergenerational youth-fueled activism as a way for girls to develop the critical vocabulary, the imagination, and the experience to confront wicked problems.Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D. is a community activist and Professor of Education at Colby College. She is co-founder of three intergenerational girl-fueled social change organizations: a community nonprofit, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a feminist blog, Powered By Girl, and SPARK Movement, an online girl-driven organization working to ignite an anti-racist gender justice movement. Lyn’s scholarship focuses on understanding the conditions that enable girls’ healthy resistance and dissent in the face of oppression. She is the author of seven curriculums and educational toolkits and six books, including Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (with Carol Gilligan; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year); Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls’ Anger; Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls; Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketer’s Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; winner of a Books For A Better Life Award), and her most recent, Powered By Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists.
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