Lyn Mikel Brown

Lyn Mikel Brown (born February 12, 1956) is an American academic, author, feminist, and community activist. She is Professor of Education Emerit at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Her research interests include girls' development, youth activism, and the impact of media and marketing on youth. She is a co-founder of the research-driven nonprofit, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and SPARK, a girl-fueled anti-racist gender justice movement. She has authored seven books, many peer-reviewed articles, general media essays, and book chapters. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.

Early life and education Lyn Mikel Brown was born in Vanceboro, Maine, to Linwood C. Brown, a railroad engineer, and Diana A. Main Brown, a nurse. She has two brothers and a sister.

After graduating from Calais High School, she studied psychology at the University of Maine from 1974 to 1976, sociology at the University of Kent from 1976 to 1977, and psychology at Ottawa University from 1977 to 1979; she earned her bachelor's degree at the latter institution. From 1983 to 1989 she pursued her graduate degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education, earning her Ed.D. in human development and psychology.

In 2000 In 2010

Writing Brown's first book, co-authored with Carol Gilligan, was Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's psychology and girls' development (1992), which focused attention on a previously little-studied stage of female development, the transition from girlhood to adolescence, and introduced the "Listener's Guide" as a research tool. The book was named one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She co-authored, with Sharon Lamb, a pair of books on the sexualization of teens in the media and marketing, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes (2006) and Packaging Boyhood: Saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes (2009); her partner, Mark Tappan, was a co-author on the latter book. and was a consultant to the Ms. Foundation for Women's National Girls' Initiative in 1994. She was named College Professor of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International in 2014. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.

Personal life Brown and her partner, Mark Tappan, also a professor of education Emerit at Colby College, have one daughter and reside in Waterville.

Selected bibliography Books

(with Sharon Lamb and Mark Tappan) (with Sharon Lamb)

(with Carol Gilligan; reprinted 2013)