Tatyana Nieves Brown

Tatyana Brown is an African American and Afro-Puerto Rican researcher, artist, and community organizer who recently graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi. After studying, working, and traveling in nearly 20 countries, she found a passion for the Global South, art as resistance, and Gen Z’s means of building solidarity across oceans on and off the internet. Her bachelor’s degree in Social Research and Public Policy with a minor in African Studies allowed her to research these themes; her art in photography and poetry helps her to untangle them, and her organizing work allows her to advocate for them. She has participated in movements across the Americas, Europe, and Southwest Asia for land rights, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ liberation. She intends to pursue dual master’s degrees in Africana Studies in graduate school, with the hope of working in curation and public programs. With feminism and abolition as her north star, her long-term vision is to use the arts and culture world as a platform to invest in global Gen Z.