Raised in the City of Brotherly Love & Sisterly Affection, Cole Brown is a Philly kid at heart.
While spending childhood summers between Ethiopia and the Midwest, Cole matured in Philadelphia’s predominately white private schools and neighborhoods, an experience that delivered an awareness of race and class from a young age.
After graduating high school, Cole moved to Washington D.C. to attend Georgetown University as a finance major. Landmark events such as the death of Michael Brown caused Cole to rethink his original plans. Cole graduated from Georgetown with a major in Justice and Peace Studies and a passion for storytelling.
During his time at Georgetown, Cole was inspired to begin penning his first book, Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World.
Greyboy is a collection of introspective essays that follows the journey of Black identity when subsumed in an environment of white privilege. Greyboy is will be available to the public on September 22, 2020.
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