Pam Brown is a writer, filmmaker and activist living in Brooklyn, NY. She holds her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Dartmouth College, and attended the MFA program at Columbia University’s Film School. She is currently completing a PhD in Sociology with a focus on media at The New School for Social Research, where she was a recipient of a University Fellowship. She holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School, as well as a Master of Arts in Sociology from The New School for Social Research.
Pam was involved in motion picture development and production for over a decade in New York and Los Angeles. Her career crossed both independent and studio arenas, having worked with companies such as Artisan Entertainment, The Manheim Company, Primary Pictures, Revolution Studios, Moving Pictures International, and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As a Literary Manager, Pam represented writers who sold scripts to Hollywood studios, as well as writers who were active in independent filmmaking.
Pam first became involved in activism while living in Los Angeles during the lead up to the Iraq War, where she was an active member of African American Women United for Peace & Justice. In 2011, when Occupy Wall Street ignited, Pam became a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, as well as Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt. She has been involved in campaigns and writing projects connected with those groups including the student debt pledge of refusal, the Debt Resistors Operations Manual, the Rolling Jubilee, and Shouldering the Costs, a public service report on debt and Hurricane Sandy.
Pam is currently a columnist with Tidal Magazine and a contributor to Acronym TV's Resistance Report. She is on the board of The Brecht Forum, a member of the US Social Forum national planning committee, and an organizer of a truth commission on the 2008 financial crisis called The People’s Investigation of Wall Street.
Pam was involved in motion picture development and production for over a decade in New York and Los Angeles. Her career crossed both independent and studio arenas, having worked with companies such as Artisan Entertainment, The Manheim Company, Primary Pictures, Revolution Studios, Moving Pictures International, and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As a Literary Manager, Pam represented writers who sold scripts to Hollywood studios, as well as writers who were active in independent filmmaking.
Pam first became involved in activism while living in Los Angeles during the lead up to the Iraq War, where she was an active member of African American Women United for Peace & Justice. In 2011, when Occupy Wall Street ignited, Pam became a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, as well as Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt. She has been involved in campaigns and writing projects connected with those groups including the student debt pledge of refusal, the Debt Resistors Operations Manual, the Rolling Jubilee, and Shouldering the Costs, a public service report on debt and Hurricane Sandy.
Pam is currently a columnist with Tidal Magazine and a contributor to Acronym TV's Resistance Report. She is on the board of The Brecht Forum, a member of the US Social Forum national planning committee, and an organizer of a truth commission on the 2008 financial crisis called The People’s Investigation of Wall Street.
