Autumn Brown is an artist, facilitator, mother, and theologian. The front woman of the eponymously named soul-pop band, AUTUMN, she is a queer, mixed-race Black woman, a gifted facilitator and orator, and a freedom worker who grounds her approach to building movements for liberation in her belief in the innate capacity for healing that emanates from the human heart.
Autumn is the recipient of the 2025 Margaret Brent Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and is a 2020 Auburn Seminary Lives of Commitment Honoree. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Autumn studied abroad at Oxford University, and pursued continuing education in Theology at the General Theological Seminary of New York. She is a speculative fiction and creative non-fiction writer, and her work has been published in journals, anthologies, and collected works of fiction and non-fiction. In 2024, AUTUMN the band released two EPs, The Animal in You and The Way Your Blood Beats, produced by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. Autumn co-hosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World with her sister, adrienne maree brown. She lives in Minneapolis with her three brilliant children.