Abena Joan Brown: What is Africa to Me?

Abena Joan Brown

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Abena Joan P. Brown, a native Chicagoan, received a bachelor’s degree from Roosevelt University, a Master’s Degree in community organization and management from the University of Chicago and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Chicago State University.

She is the co-founder, president and producer of eta Creative Arts Foundation, a 34-year-old full service and multi-disciplined cultural arts institution on the south side of Chicago. eta is the first Africentric cultural organization to purchase/renovate its own space and is also the first to establish an endowment.

Brown’s many honors include an Award of Merit from the Black Theater Alliance, The Paul Robeson Award from the Chicago African American Arts Alliance, the Governor’s Award in the Arts and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Joseph Jefferson Committee. She was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame of Chicago in 1991.