Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Emergent Strategist Adrienne Maree Brown

Adrienne Maree Brown's writing style has been said to belong to the Afro-Futurism genre. In 2010, she published the Octavia Butler Strategic Reader with Alexis Pauline Gumbs. She is the author of Emergent Strategy and the recently released Pleasure Activism, and she’s the Co-editor of Octavia's Brood. Adrienne's also the co-host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast, a lifelong facilitator, doula and auntie living in Detroit.

She has worked extensively with numerous organizations on social justice. Following college, she worked with the Harm Reduction Coalition in Brooklyn and started working as a social justice facilitator. She would go on to facilitate the World Social Forum, an annual meeting of civil society organizations, and work with social justice organizations in Detroit. In 2006, she served as a consultant with Detroit Summer  "a multicultural, intergenerational collective" that "worked to transform communities through youth leadership, creativity, and collective action from the ground up" where she developed a strong relationship with the late activist Grace Lee Boggs.

Adrienne has worked with the Allied Media Conference as a host and facilitator. In 2018 she Founded, the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute   a hub to experiment, think, facilitate, learn, and share emergent strategy. ESII exists to help groups, organizations, and movements bring these principles into their work through facilitation and training.