Contact: jbrowne@cthumanities.org
Jeanika Browne-Springer (she/her) is a multidisciplinary teaching artist and advocate for creative placemaking. She has a Masters in Education from the University of Saint Joseph (West Hartford, CT) in the Multiple Intelligences and BA from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in Theater & Dance, minoring in Studio Arts and Urban Studies.
Her career started as a Hartford public elementary schoolteacher, transitioned into grant writing, marketing, and programming at an arts education non profit adjacent to the public school district. For the past few years she’s been the Director of LifeLong Learning at HartBeat Ensemble, a social justice community-based theater company and is now a Grant Officer at CT Humanities. She is also an adjunct professor at Gateway Community College in partnership with the International Festival of Art & Ideas. Jeanika is a coach to emerging teaching artists, arts consultant, emerging scenic painter and new youth play director & dramaturg.
Affiliations: Board President for Night Fall Inc, a member of the Artists of Color Unite! advisory group for Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, alumni of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship, an advisory member of the Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health, 2024-25 New England Creative Community Fellow at National Arts Strategies, 2024-25 CT Poetry Out Loud Coordinator.