DeNeen Brown holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Kansas and joined the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism faculty in 2019 after more than three decades at The Washington Post. She has been an award-winning writer at The Washington Post for more than three decades. Since coming to UMD, she has continued to write for The Post, including a series of stories on the deadly 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which led to the city’s mayor reopening an investigation into suspected mass graves. Brown’s investigative reporting on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is featured in two documentaries: “Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer” (NatGeo TV and Hulu on June 18, 2021, https://films.nationalgeographic.com/riseagain) and on PBS as “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten” (May 31, 2021).

Brown, who has written for the Metro, Magazine, and Style sections, was also a Canada bureau chief for The Washington Post, and her journalism was featured in 1999 Best Newspaper Writing (The Poynter Institute). As a foreign correspondent, she wrote dispatches from Greenland, Haiti, Nunavut, and an icebreaker in the Northwest Passage. Her national feature-writing has earned prizes from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and regional awards from the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press Association.