Felicia Latoya Brown is past-president of the Career and Technical Association of New Jersey. She has been working as a CTE theatre educator for three years and was award the NJ New CTE Teacher of the Year before being nominated for presidency. She has a drive to see arts, media, and entertainment-related CTE programs get the recognition and support that is needed for all students involved to succeed.
She taught several subjects at Life Center Academy before leaving to teach at Trenton Central High School. She brings her experiences from acting, singing, directing, stage managing, dramaturgy, traveling and teaching to her tenth through twelfth-grade students. To find out more about the CTE program at TCHS, visit http://www.tchstheatre.com
Brown holds an MA in theatre studies and another MA in arts administration. She holds three NJ standard teaching certifications for theatre, CTE/vocational theatre, and English. She is working on her certification to become one of less than 30 arts integration specialists in New Jersey and is developing her portfolio to be able to start her EdD in theatre education at NYU upon completion of her arts integration certification in 2022. She was the regional programming director for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), helping to shape the Theatre In Our Schools (TIOS) Month campaign during the pandemic. She is on the board for the Ritz Theatre Company and a member of the Speech Theatre Association of New Jersey and the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) in which she is a NJ Thespian troupe director. Ms. Brown also holds membership in Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and three unions: National Education Association (NEA), the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) and the Trenton Education Association (TEA). Her work for diversity and anti-racism within and outside of several of these organizations can be found here.
She has a passion for reading and learning, especially about cultures. She taught short theatre programs in Kenya, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The latter of which included drama therapy with former child prostitutes. Her international performances have included singing in Egypt and Slovakia. She visited and lived in Slovakia, which allowed for her to be the language editor for the first Slovak civil law book to be translated into English. Her research in Slovak theatre has made her one of the few Americans to be repeatedly invited to the Slovak Theatre Nova Drama Festival.
She was also one of the associate producers for the award-winning independent short film The Sand Box.
She taught several subjects at Life Center Academy before leaving to teach at Trenton Central High School. She brings her experiences from acting, singing, directing, stage managing, dramaturgy, traveling and teaching to her tenth through twelfth-grade students. To find out more about the CTE program at TCHS, visit http://www.tchstheatre.com
Brown holds an MA in theatre studies and another MA in arts administration. She holds three NJ standard teaching certifications for theatre, CTE/vocational theatre, and English. She is working on her certification to become one of less than 30 arts integration specialists in New Jersey and is developing her portfolio to be able to start her EdD in theatre education at NYU upon completion of her arts integration certification in 2022. She was the regional programming director for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), helping to shape the Theatre In Our Schools (TIOS) Month campaign during the pandemic. She is on the board for the Ritz Theatre Company and a member of the Speech Theatre Association of New Jersey and the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) in which she is a NJ Thespian troupe director. Ms. Brown also holds membership in Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and three unions: National Education Association (NEA), the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) and the Trenton Education Association (TEA). Her work for diversity and anti-racism within and outside of several of these organizations can be found here.
She has a passion for reading and learning, especially about cultures. She taught short theatre programs in Kenya, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The latter of which included drama therapy with former child prostitutes. Her international performances have included singing in Egypt and Slovakia. She visited and lived in Slovakia, which allowed for her to be the language editor for the first Slovak civil law book to be translated into English. Her research in Slovak theatre has made her one of the few Americans to be repeatedly invited to the Slovak Theatre Nova Drama Festival.
She was also one of the associate producers for the award-winning independent short film The Sand Box.
