[email protected] www.tctproject.com Mikaila Brown, PhD ANTHROPOLOGIST & FASHION MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR

PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT

I am a fashion anthropologist, who has built a brand around integrating my degree in Anthropology with over 4 years experience of running my own fashion line. I am committed to using my unconventional background to develop a pedagogy that encourages those preparing to work with and in the fashion industry to be more culturally aware.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND WORK EXPERIENCE 2005 – 2007 2018 - PRESENT Cornell University- Senior Lecturer PhD in Anthropology & Education +Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FSAD) Department 2002 - 2005 Courses Taught: Columbia University - Fashion Product Management (Fall 2018) M.Phil in Anthropology & Education - Global Fashion Management (Fall 2018)

1996-2000 + eCornell University of Pennsylvania FSAD Course Design: B.A. in Communications with a concentration in - Intro to Fashion Management Culture Minor in Urban Education (Projected for Spring 2019) 2015 - PRESENT 1996 The Common Thread Project-Founder & CEO Goldsmith University, University of London + Developing a travel and fashion brand that Exchange program within the Communications showcases local fashion trends through a cultural and Media Department examination of a particular city or community. + Offering a fashion tour series through AirBnB that REFERENCES highlights the deeper social and cultural meanings behind what local communities wear. VAN DYK LEWIS Apparel Design, Cornell University 2009-2015 [email protected] ALIAKIM INC.- Founder, CEO, Lead Designer SARAH PORTWAY + Developed a socially conscious fashion line, Fashion & Textiles, SUNY Oneonta centered on raising awareness to societal issues [email protected] around the world.

PRESENTATIONS & PANELS FASHION THEN & NOW, OCTOBER 2017 THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE TO LIM College CREATIVITY, "Green is (Not) the New Black: The Role of SCHEDULED JUNE 2019 Sustainable Fashion in Historically Black Pixar Studios Communities" Guest Speaker Presenter

HAIR APPARENT: AN EXAMINATION OF FASHION & JUSTICE WORKSHOP, THE MOTIVATIONS BEHIND NATURAL JULY 2017 HAIRSTYLE MOVEMENTS, PAST AND Parson School of Design PRESENT, APRIL 2019 Presenter Black Lives Conference CUNY Grad Center SLAVERY MADE PLAIN, JULY 2017 Wall Street, BUILDING THE BUSINESS OF YOU, Producer J ANUARY 2019 Les Femmes de Substance Annual Women’s HARLEM TECH WEEK, DIVERSITY Retreat, Cornell University STARTUP CONFERENCE, JUNE 2017 Workshop Facilitator WeWork Harlem Panelist #FORTHECULTURE: IN HOW TO LEVERAGE YOUR COMMUNITY C OMICS, JANUARY 2019 TO CREATE, MAY 2017 Schomburg Black Comic Book Festival WeWork Brooklyn Commons Panelist Panelist

THE PROBLEM OF CULTURAL BLACK STYLE MATTERS PANEL,

APPROPRIATION ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, APRIL 2017 O CTOBER 2018 Intergroup Dialogue Project Panel Organizer & Moderator Cornell University Faculty Advisor GUEST LECTURES FASHION TRENDS THROUGH AN ANTHRO "THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING L ENS, SEPTEMBER 2018 DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TO FUTURE Association for Students of Color FASHION PROFESSIONALS " FACULTY Cornell University WORKSHOP, SCHEDULED-APRIL 2019 Faculty Talk SUNY Oneonta, Arts and Science Department

"DOLLARS & SENSE: THE IMPORTANCE OF USING COMICS TO FOSTER CREATIVE AND DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TO THE CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE FASHION INDUSTRY'S BOTTOM LINE ", A ND SOCIAL JUSTICE, AUGUST 2018 SCHEDULED-APRIL 2019 Teachers College, Columbia University SUNY Oneonta, Fashion and Textile Department Panelist

"EXAMINING THE THIN LINE BETWEEN TECH AND SUSTAINABILITY PANEL, APRIL CULTURAL INSPIRATION AND 2 018 APPROPRIATION", FEBRUARY 2019 Brooklyn Fashion Week Graduate Studies Program, City University of New Panelist York, Fashion Studies Department

NEXT LEVEL STUDENT LEADERSHIP "THE REAL IMPACT OF CULTURAL C ONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2017 APPROPRIATION ON THE FASHION LIM College I NDUSTRY", FEBRUARY 2018 Sustainability, Travel & Race Montclair State Univerity, Fashion Studies Seminar Leader Department

"FASHION POLICE: USING ANTHROPOLOGY COMMITTEES TO NAVIGATE FASHION’S CULTURAL + African Studies Working Group (ASWG), ,P OLITICS", FEBRUARY 2018 Founding Member; Columbia University Cornell University, Department of Fiber Science & + Nation Building, NY Steering Apparel Design Committee Co-Chair; Columbia University and INDEPENDENT RESEARCH + Institute of African Studies, TC Liaison; PROJECTS SIPA/Columbia University The Common Thread Project + Caribbean Scholars Association- New York, + Conducting ethnographic research on Member and Conference Organizing Committee the history, politics and culture behind + African Economic Forum (AEF), SIPA/ TC Liaison local fashion trends and Conference Organizing Committee + Black Student Network (BSN), Member; - Atlanta, Georgia, 2018 TC/Columbia University - South Bronx, New York, 2017 + Sisters Inspiring Sisters (SIS), Member; - Harlem, New York, 2016 TC/Columbia University + Caribbean Studies Association, Member Jamaica Columbia University Impact Inc. (JAMPACT), Member; New York + Conducting ethnographic research on Chapter the migration experience of pre- + Black Student Network, Member, Association of retirement, middle-class returnees living Black Anthropologists (ABA) in Kingston, centered on the effects of + Umoja Leadership Council, Member; socioeconomic status and an intent to UPENN return on the development of self- + Caribbean American Student perception and nationalism. Association, President; UPENN -Kingston, Jamaica 2005-2009

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLICATIONS + KNOWLEDGE MATTERS, AN INNOVATIVE BUCKLEY,C., & CLARK H., FASHION AND PEDAGOGY INITIATIVE; CORNELL EVERYDAY LIFE: LONDON AND NEW YORK, ,U NIVERSITY BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, N.Y. Ithaca, New York, 2018-2019 S EPTEMBER 2017 PHOTO CREDIT THE COMMON THREAD PROJECT PAGE 264 EDITORSHIP + TC Record, Peer Reviewer; Columbia CARIBBEAN MIGRATION AND DIASPORA: University CULTURES OF FREEDOM AND RESTRAINT, + Wadabegei, Book Reviewer IAN RAND PUBLISHING, J.A., NOVEMBER + Transforming Anthropology, Peer 2 008 Reviewer “The Importance of Intent: Understanding the + Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Social Networks of Jamaican Migrants Educated Film Reviewer Abroad.” + Institute of African Studies Newsletter, Editor & W ADABEGEI, MAY 2005 Contributor; SIPA, Columbia University “Addressing ‘Premigration Legacies and MEDIA COVERAGE Immigrant Social Mobility’: A Book Review. "HOW ONE WOMAN TURNED FASHION HTTP://WWW.LING.UPENN.EDU/~WLABOV/P ANTHROPOLOGY INTO A CAREER", APER S, WITH W. LABOV, B. BAKER, S. ,N OVEMBER 2018 BULLOCK, L. ROSS, UNIVERSITY OF The Root PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, P.A., MAY 1 998 "THE LEGACY OF HARLEM FASHION LIVES ““A Graphic – Phonemic Analysis of the Reading ON", AUGUST 2018 Errors of Inner City Children.” Amsterdam News

"DOING IT FOR THE CULTURE! UNIQUE BLACK-OWNED NEW YORK CITY TOURIST EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE TO TRY ", ,M ARCH 2018 Essence Magazine

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Proficient in Microsoft Office, SPSS, Blackboard and Canva