About Autumn

Autumn Brown is an artist, facilitator, mother, and theologian. The front woman of the eponymously named soul-pop band, AUTUMN, she is a queer, mixed-race Black woman, a gifted facilitator and orator, and a freedom worker who grounds her approach to building movements for liberation in her belief in the innate capacity for healing that emanates from the human heart. 

From 2016 to 2024, Autumn was a facilitator with the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy through political education, training, and planning. Prior to joining AORTA, Autumn served as the Executive Director of RECLAIM!, a non-profit that works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. She was a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective, a radical community health exchange active in New York City from 2006-2012, and she is past president of the Board of Directors of Voices for Racial Justice.

Autumn brings 20 years of experience facilitating movement strategy, organizational and strategic development with community-based and social justice organizations, and training organizers in consensus process, facilitation, and racial justice. She has taught and presented in many places across the country, as well as internationally. She has worked with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Kairos Fellows, the American Civil Liberties Union, MPD150, and the Black Visions Collective, among many others.

Autumn is a 2020 Auburn Seminary Lives of Commitment Honoree. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Autumn has also completed specialized study in Theology at Oxford University and the General Theological Seminary of New York. She is a speculative fiction and creative non-fiction writer, and her work has been published in journals, anthologies, and collected works of fiction and non-fiction. In 2024, AUTUMN the band released two EPs, The Animal in You and The Way Your Blood Beats, produced by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. Autumn co-hosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World with her sister, adrienne maree brown. She lives in Minneapolis with her three brilliant children.