Austin Channing Brown
NYT Bestselling Author | Transformational Speaker | Cultural Worker
Austin Channing Brown is a powerful keynote speaker and bestselling author on racial justice in America. Her embodied storytelling brings clarity to conversations about race, faith, and freedom work.
Using a vivid, rigorous, and deeply human approach to racial justice work, Austin helps you move beyond flat terminology and performative concern into communal creativity and radical action.
Heart. Soul. Wisdom. Hope.
Offering accessible yet vivid frameworks for justice, Austin’s ability to engage everyone in the room, refusing comfort by capturing imagination, will leave your community transformed. Austin leads the kind of events that people will still be talking about years later.
No decks. No props. No fireworks. And still Austin is electric. Whether offering a keynote lecture, a fireside chat, or panel participation, Austin centers truth and clarity, learning and growth.
Ready to get started? Use the button below to email, Lyceum, Austin’s speaker agency.
Common Questions
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Keynotes
Panels
Staff Development
Executive Coaching
Fireside Chats
Breakout Sessions
Book signings
Virtual Events
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Practical racial justice work
Radical allyship
Support and healing for people of color
Creating cultural responsiveness in your organization
Black history and our present freedom work
Building a writing career as a Black woman
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Austin is invested in meeting your organization where you are. She works with high schools and colleges, both secular and religious. She is effective in leading executive teams or connecting with multicultural networks. She visits libraries, book festivals, conferences, social work agencies, youth organizations, human services divisions, churches, and corporations. Wherever racial justice is being practiced sincerely, Austin is pleased to help.
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Getting started is simple. Austin is represented by The Lyceum Agency, and they are more than happy to talk with you about your event. Email them at lyceum@lyceumagency or give them a call at 503-467-4622.
Support for your journey.
Whether you are new to racial justice work or a seasoned pro, Austin is dedicated to helping you take the next step on your racial justice journey. Her credentials for this work are many. She earned a masters in social justice in 2009 and has been teaching and writing about justice and human dignity ever since. She has produced three books, a long running newsletter and multiple video series all with the purpose of educating and empowering people who want to be agents of change. In 2024, she was given an honorary doctorate in celebration and acknowledgement of her work. If you are looking for a person who cares deeply about human dignity, possess historical knowledge and sparks the imagination for what we could do next- look no further than Austin.
“Brown is in absolute control of her literary superpowers… Exquisite work.”
— Kiese Laymon“The book we need in this moment when each of us must fight to maintain our birthrights of freedom, peace and shared humanity.”
— Glennon Doyle “Authentic, vulnerable, heartbreaking, and inspiring… You need to read this book.”
— jenny lawson“This book is a love letter to women who are ready to reclaim the parts of themselves they’ve ignored, suppressed, or sacrificed.”
— Erika alexander“Brown is a singer of Black girls songs, a teller of Black girls tales. Here she emerges fully.”
— Dr Brittney Cooper“Brown is one of the most honest storytellers we have today.”
— Cole Arthur Riley