An innovative and exciting group of community leaders in the arts and humanities serve as Public Humanities Fellows at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Each fellow works on a public humanities project and becomes a resource for Public Humanities students. Public Humanities Fellows are culture workers from the non-profit community who use their fellowship to pursue a program of reading, writing, and thinking or to engage in a specific project with the support of Center staff, faculty, and students.
Public Humanities Fellows
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Public Humanities Fellow, Associate Director for Student Activities at Brown University
Matthew Branch is an Educator and cultural strategist working in Higher Education and Arts and Cultural Management exploring the ways in which programming can be a vehicle for personal development, Social Impact, and institutional change.
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Public Humanities Fellow, Director of Literary Engagement and Outreach at School One
Diana Champa is the Director of Literary Engagement and Outreach at School One where she oversees literary arts programming and community engagement. Before this position she worked for Prime Cut Productions and the Van Morrison Rhythm and Blues Foundation in Northern Ireland.
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Public Humanities Fellow
Fran Loosen has 25 years of experience in the social/nonprofit sector. Fran started her career in development and became an Executive Director of a startup organization at the age of 25. Her formal education is in art history and she also retains a MBA/MPA from the University of Michigan focused on strategy, innovation and marketing.
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Public Humanities Fellow, Outreach & Program Manager at JFK Library and Museum
Maria Quintero specializes in serving as a bridge between cultural institutions, local agencies, community organizations, and the public — seeking to create spaces for people from marginalized backgrounds to enrich their lives by critically engaging with the past to empower communities historically left out of museum spaces and program.
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Public Humanities Fellow, Executive Director of the Providence Preservation Society
Brent Runyon is the Executive Director of the Providence Preservation Society, where he has been since fall 2013.
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Public Humanities Fellow
Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate and educator. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design.
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Public Humanities Fellow, Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, American Democracy Fellow for the Charles Warren Center for American History
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Public Humanities Fellow
Howie Sneider's childhood exploration of the forests and hills of Central New York inspired his sense of wonderment and discovery. He searched for his voice from a young age, participating in, and documenting animal rights demonstrations for the Animal Defense League of Syracuse and lobbying for reproductive rights in Albany with other teens.