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Nicole Renee Brown

Nicole Renee Brown

About Nicole Renee Brown

Nicole Brown a Class Action trainer who first become involved in 2006 as an intern while studying at Mt. Holyoke College. She went on to work organizing New York City residents for anti-gentrification and affordable housing campaigns at Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) and for the Working Families Party (WFP). Nicole currently resides Washington, DC where she recently finished her Master’s in Education Policy and is working for the Democracy Collaborative, a Think (and action) Tank that innovates policy and partners with local organizations to strategize how to build community wealth within their neighborhoods.

Juneteenth and a Dream Deferred

June 17, 2016 by Nicole Renee Brown 3 Comments

Largely unknown to the overall U.S. population, Juneteenth is the most popular annual celebration of emancipation from slavery in the United States and celebrated each year on June 19th throughout the country. June 19, 1865, is the date that Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger established the Union Army’s authority over the territory of Texas. It was the date also when he […]

Filed Under: Race and Class, Racism in Media & Pop Culture Tagged With: race and class, racism

Choosing Not to Go Into Debt for College

June 8, 2016 by Nicole Renee Brown 3 Comments

Nicole Brown wrote the following after reading, and being so affected by, last month’s (May 2016) Classism Exposed blog post on the possibility that students are deciding not to attend college due to the fear of loan debt. After reading that low-income and working-class students may be choosing not to go to college for fear of taking on debt, […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class in Higher Education, Classism in the Economy, First Generation College Students, Money, Poverty Tagged With: academia, debt, education, first generation college students, poverty, working class

Broke vs. “Broke”: Bothered by Humble Brags

October 9, 2014 by Nicole Renee Brown 5 Comments

This summer, I had a “stay-cation,” meaning I stayed put in DC where I moved last year to attend grad school.  My “stay-cation” was awful, imposed on me because of my lack of funds; I was completely broke.  I take issue when people flippantly use the term “broke” to describe their financial situation (e.g. the […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism in Everyday Life, First Generation College Students, Poverty Tagged With: first generation college students, graduate school, poverty, pretense

Class & My Identity as a Woman of African Descent

June 3, 2013 by Nicole Renee Brown Leave a Comment

Class was a confusing issue for me.  Despite that, I never doubted for a moment that my race intersected with my class in a profound way. I experience class through the many different lenses of my identity.  I am a Black Woman of Afro-Caribbean descent from Brooklyn New York. Class has been racialized in American […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education

Thoughts about Thanksgiving (& -isms we may encounter at the table!)

November 24, 2011 by Nicole Renee Brown 1 Comment

After listening to a NPR segment about Thanksgiving and some anxiety that this very social holiday brings up for folks, I realized that this year may be challenging in new ways. Not only has the economy been stagnant, unemployment is rising, and political movements are taking place nationwide and internationally that put class inequality at […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in Everyday Life, Politics and Class, Race and Class

Who Gets Plowed in New York?

February 6, 2011 by Nicole Renee Brown 1 Comment

 After the first huge snow storm on December 26, my family was asking two questions: a) where are the damn snowplows in our Brooklyn neighborhood?; and b) why is Manhattan clear?  Smells like a class issue here.  I was born and raised in this neighborhood, which saw white flight in the 70s, the crack epidemic […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in Politics, Race and Class Tagged With: budget cuts, classism, public services, racism, union-bashing

Responding to Verbal Classism

February 1, 2011 by Nicole Renee Brown 8 Comments

When I hear a classist put-down, I feel like Derek Zoolander in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander, tongue-tied and unable to come up with a response until hours or days later. I know that being a bystander is not enough. I owe it to myself, other listeners, the offensive speaker, and the target of the […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: classism, Conflict-avoidance, racism

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