Clinical Assistant Professor Melody Brown, PhD, knows firsthand the importance of intersectionality. This makes her an asset to the School of Education & Human Development, where she teaches in the MA in couple and family therapy (CFT) program.
Brown, a licensed marriage and family therapist, uses herself as an example to illustrate what intersectionality means. “I talk about who I am and my various identities and how those impact me as I walk through this world,” she said. “I am an African American, I’m able-bodied, I don’t identify as heterosexual because it doesn’t fit for me. I grew up in a religious family and, while I don’t attend church, I do hold dear the tenets of love and equality.” Brown is also the oldest child of a middle-class family. “Think about all those things coming together,” she said.
