(954) 871-7293 [email protected] www.tctproject.com Mikaila Brown, PhD FASHION 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 Columbia University Cornell University- Senior Lecturer PhD in Anthropology & Education +Fiber Science and Apparel Design Department Courses Taught: 2002 - 2005 - Fashion Product Management (Fall 2018) Columbia University - Global Fashion Management (Fall 2018) M.Phil in Anthropology & Education + eCornell 1996-2000 Courses Designed: - Intro to Fashion Management (Spring 2019) University of Pennsylvania B.A. in Communications with a concentration in Culture Minor in Urban Education 2015 - PRESENT The Common Thread Project-Founder & CEO 1996 + Developing a travel and fashion brand that Goldsmith University, University of London showcases local fashion trends through a cultural Exchange program within the Communications examination of a particular city or community. and Media Department + Creating content that guides the fashion minded to see the deeper social and cultural meanings behind what they wear. REFERENCES VAN DYK LEWIS 2009-2015 Fashion Management, Cornell University ALIAKIM FASHIONS INC.- Founder, CEO, Lead [email protected] Designer + Developed a socially conscious fashion line, SARAH PORTWAY centered on raising awareness to societal issues Fashion & Textiles, SUNY Oneonta around the world. [email protected] PRESENTATIONS & PANELS HOW TO LEVERAGE YOUR COMMUNITY THE PROBLEM OF CULTURAL TO CREATE, MAY 2017 APPROPRIATION ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, WeWork Brooklyn Commons O CTOBER 2018 Panelist Intergroup Dialogue Project Cornell University BLACK STYLE MATTERS PANEL, Faculty Advisor APRIL 2017 Parsons School of Design FASHION TRENDS THROUGH AN ANTHRO Panel Organizer & Moderator L ENS, SEPTEMBER 2018 Association for Students of Color Cornell University Faculty Talk GUEST LECTURES USING COMICS TO FOSTER CREATIVE AND "EXAMINING THE THIN LINE BETWEEN CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE CULTURAL INSPIRATION AND A ND SOCIAL JUSTICE, AUGUST 2018 APPROPRIATION", SCHEDULED-MAY 2018 Teachers College, Columbia University Graduate Studies Program, City University of New Panelist York, Fashion Studies Department TECH AND SUSTAINABILITY PANEL, APRIL 2 018 "THE REAL IMPACT OF CULTURAL Brooklyn Fashion Week APPROPRIATION ON THE FASHION Panelist I NDUSTRY", FEBRUARY 2018 Mountclair State Univerity, Fashion Studies NEXT LEVEL STUDENT LEADERSHIP Department C ONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2017 LIM College "FASHION POLICE: USING ANTHROPOLOGY Sustainability, Travel & Race TO NAVIGATE FASHION’S CULTURAL Seminar Leader ,P OLITICS", FEBRUARY 2018 Cornell University, Department of Fiber Science & FASHION THEN & NOW, OCTOBER 2017 Apparel Design LIM College "Green is (Not) the New Black: The Role of Sustainable Fashion in Historically Black INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS Communities" Presenter The Common Thread Project + Conducting ethnographic research on the history, FASHION & JUSTICE WORKSHOP, politics and culture behind local fashion trends JULY 2017 - South Bronx, New York, 2017 Parson School of Design - Harlem, New York, 2016 Presenter Columbia University SLAVERY MADE PLAIN, JULY 2017 + Conducting ethnographic research focused on the Wall Street, New York migration experience of pre-retirement, middle Producer class returnees back to Kingston, centering on the effects of socio-economic status and an intent to HARLEM TECH WEEK, DIVERSITY return on the development of self-perception and STARTUP CONFERENCE, JUNE 2017 nationalism. WeWork Harlem - Kingston, Jamaica, 2005-2009 Panelist PUBLICATIONS EDITORSHIP C aribbean Migration and Diaspora: + TC Record, Peer Reviewer; Columbia Cultures of Freedom and Restraint, Ian University Rand Publishing, J.A., November 2008 + Wadabegei, Book Reviewer “The Importance of Intent: Understanding + Transforming Anthropology, Peer the Social Networks of Jamaican Migrants Reviewer Educated Abroad.” + Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Film Reviewer Wadabegei, May 2005 + Institute of African Studies Newsletter, “Addressing ‘Premigration Legacies and Editor & Contributor; SIPA, Columbia Immigrant Social Mobility’: A Book Review. University http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/Papers, With W. Labov, B. Baker, S. Bullock, L. Ross, MEDIA COVERAGE University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, P.A., May 1998 "HOW ONE WOMEN TURNED FASHION “A Graphic – Phonemic Analysis of the ANTHROPOLOGY INTO A CAREER", Reading Errors of Inner City Children.” ,N OVEMBER 2018 The Root COMMITTEES "THE LEGACY OF HARLEM FASHION LIVES + African Studies Working Group (ASWG), ON", AUGUST 2018 Founding Member; Columbia University Amsterdam News + Nation Building, NY Steering Committee Co-Chair; Columbia University and New "DOING IT FOR THE CULTURE! UNIQUE York University BLACK-OWNED NEW YORK CITY TOURIST + Institute of African Studies, TC Liaison; EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE TO TRY ", SIPA/Columbia University ,M ARCH 2018 + Caribbean Scholars Association- New Essence Magazine York, Member and Conference Organizing Committee + African Economic Forum (AEF), SIPA/ TC PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Liaison and Conference Organizing Proficient in Microsoft Office, SPSS and Blackboard Committee + Black Student Network (BSN), Member; TC/Columbia University + Sisters Inspiring Sisters (SIS), Member; TC/Columbia University + Caribbean Studies Association, Member Jamaica Impact Inc. (JAMPACT), Member; New York Chapter + Black Student Network, Member, Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) + Umoja Leadership Council, Member; UPENN + Caribbean American Student Association, President; UPENN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT + Knowledge Matters, An Innovative Pedagogy Initiative; Cornell University .