Lyn Mikel Brown (born February 12, 1956) is an American academic, author, feminist, and community activist.
She is a co-founder of the research-driven nonprofit, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and SPARK, a girl-fueled anti-racist gender justice movement.
Among the latter group's efforts was a 2012 Change.org petition against Lego Friends for targeting girls with a line of skinny, buxom female characters.
[10][11] She co-authored, with Sharon Lamb, a pair of books on the sexualization of teens in the media and marketing, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes (2006) and Packaging Boyhood: Saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes (2009); her partner, Mark Tappan, was a co-author on the latter book.
She has co-authored seven curricula, including From Adversaries to Allies: A Curriculum For Change, currently in its fourth edition, which has been used in more than 100 girls' empowerment groups statewide and in 41 U.S.
[13] In 2006 she was a co-winner, with Lauren Sterling, of the Groundbreaking Activist Leader Award from the Maine International Film Festival, for co-producing a documentary on the play Ugly Ducklings, which addresses homophobia and youth suicide.
[13] Brown and her partner, Mark Tappan, also a professor of education Emerit at Colby College,[12] have one daughter and reside in Waterville.