Marisa Angell Brown is the Executive Director of Providence Preservation Society (PPS). She is an active speaker and writer on preservation, American architecture, and social practice art and design. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, Places Journal, Perspecta, Manual, Buildings and Landscapes, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and her curatorial projects have been featured in Metropolis, Architectural Record, the Associated Press, the Providence Journal and the Public’s Radio.
Brown teaches courses at the women’s prison in Rhode Island with College Unbound, and previously taught at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design on social practice art/design, community heritage practices, preservation, and public humanities. Before joining PPS in 2023, Brown was Associate Director of RISD’s Center for Complexity, and prior to that, served as an Assistant Director at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. Brown received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Yale University and has an MA from the University of Chicago and an AB from Princeton University. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and on the boards of Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and the Rhode Island State House Restoration Society. She is Korean-American and grew up in Dubai and New York.
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