Sonya Brown has been teaching humanities in the Boston Public Schools for twenty-five years, twenty-four of those at Boston Arts Academy. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Government and Philosophy, and specialized in Educational Neuroscience at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work with adolescents began as director of two Boston youth programs: Boston Area Health Education Center’s Middle School Program and The Teen Line, a teen crisis intervention service. Previous to BAA, she worked at Harvard’s Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue exploring how artists can use their work to promote social justice. As a humanities team member, Ms. Brown co-creates interdisciplinary courses of sociology, civics, history and literature. An avid reader, she has spent the last few years developing her passion project: a literary arts pilot at BAA for students who are interested in creative writing production, publishing, and professions. Ms. Brown was recipient of the Boston Teacher of the Year Award 2004, Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award 2010, Project Bread Teacher Champion Award 2019, and Pat Cooke Fellowship 2024.
