My full CV is available upon request.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Urban Systems, New York University, New York, NY. Current.

Master of Science with Distinction, Data Analysis and Visualization, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.

Master of Architecture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY.

Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Junior Year Abroad, History of Art, University College London, London, UK.

Presentations, Exhibitions, Residencies & Fellowships

Diedre Brown. (2026 Jun 20). Urban Aerobiome Microclimates: Soil, Air, & Environmental Justice Connections Workshop. EarthMatter Farm Apprenticeship Program. Governors Island, New York, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2026 Apr 09). Future Planning With{out} the Meter: Open Urban Data & the Synthetic Aerobiome. Building Urban Data Community - NYU Open Data Creators’ Forum. Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown and Caroline Lou. (2025 Nov 08). Fort Greene Park Green Team – Urban Aerobiome Microclimates & Environmental Justice Workshop. Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2025 Jun 21-27). Assessment of Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. GRS & GRC Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE). Waterville Valley, NH.

Diedre Brown. (2025 May 29 - Jun 01). Biodiversity: Creatures of the Air, Land, and Water. GasworksNYC Presents Creature Comforts at Nails Salon Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2025 Mar 20). Empathy for the Faceless: Using Coloring Books to Explore the Urban Aerobiome Microclimate. 2025 STEM Info Professionals Mini Conference NYC: The Nature of Information. New York, NY.

Diedre Brown and Progga Bhuiyan. (2024 Nov 09). Fort Greene Park Green Team – Urban Aerobiome Microclimates & Environmental Justice Workshop. Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2024 October 22). Urban Aerobiome Microclimates Coloring Book Series. NYU Langone Art Fair for Science and Advocacy. New York, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2024 Sept 22). Urban Aerobiome Microclimates Coloring Book & Soil DNA Extraction Kit. 2024 NYU Climate Week Kick-Off. Governors Island, New York, NY.

Diedre Brown, Progga Bhuiyan, Harrison Trethowan, Tori Coleman, and Elizabeth Hénaff. (2024 April 25). Assessment of Hyperlocal Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. 52nd International Conference on Urban Affairs – Cities on the Edge: Promoting Equity and Resiliency through Research, Activism, Planning and Policy. New York, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2024 Mar 09). Empathy for the Faceless: Using Coloring Books to Explore the Urban Aerobiome Microclimate. NYC Science Education & Outreach Symposium. New York, NY.

Diedre Brown. (2024 Mar 06). Assessment of Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. NYU Urban Research Day. New York, NY.

Harry Trethowan, Progga Bhuiyan, Diedre Brown, Tori Coleman. (2023 Nov 16). Assessment of Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. 8th Annual Urban Soils Institute Symposium-Metabolism of Cities

Diedre Brown, Progga Bhuiyan, Harrison Trethowan, and Elizabeth Hénaff. (2023 Nov 11). Fort Greene Park Green Team – Urban Aerobiome Microclimates & Environmental Justice Workshop. Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown, Progga Bhuiyan, Harrison Trethowan, and Tori Coleman. (2023 Sept 08). Assessment of Hyperlocal Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. 2nd Annual NYC March for Science Summit. Brooklyn, NY.

LES Ecology Center Selected Poet. (2023 Sept 01). New York, NY.

NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship Program Recipient. 2023-2024.

Diedre Brown, Andi Sanchez, Tori Coleman, Sheila Atieno, Anshika Srivastava. (2023 June 22-23). tHrIVE. BioDesign Challenge 2023. MoMA, New York, NY 2023. *Winner Science Sandbox Prize for Public Engagement.

Urban Science: Sensing, Complexity, & Informatics Doctoral Track Fellowship at Center for Urban Science + Progress (2023-Current)

Diedre Brown, Harrison Trethowan, Progga Bhuiyan, Tori Coleman, and Elizabeth Hénaff. (2023 April 28). Assessment of Hyperlocal Urban Aerobiome Microclimates. NYU Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit 2023.  Brooklyn, NY.

Diedre Brown, Vivaldi Rinaldi, and Matthias Fitzky. (2023 April 28). Urban Microclimate: People, Space, Time Vertically Integrated Project (VIP). NYU Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit 2023, Brooklyn, NY. *Winner 1st Place Prize in the Vertically Integrated Project Category.

Irene Lopatovska and Diedre Brown. (2022 March 03). Perceptions of Feminine-, Masculine-, and Gender-Ambiguous-Sounding Conversational Agents. Information for a Better World-Shaping the Global Future (iConference 2022). Virtual Human-Computer Interaction & Technology Paper Presentation.

With Care Exhibition & Auction, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY 2021.

Diedre Brown. (2021 May 13). Demystifying AI – Understanding Parallels in Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience. In Pratt Shows - #InfoShow21. Pratt Institute School of Information. Retrieved from https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infoshow/2021/infoshow21-program

Irene Lopatovska and Diedre Brown. (2021 March 17). User Perceptions of an Intelligent Personal Assistant’s Personality: The Role of Interaction Context. 2021 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2021).

University Fellow, NYC Media Lab-Verizon 5G Retail Prototyping Challenge, November 2019 - January 2020.

Small Works/Big Impact, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY 2020.

Undercurrent. Rising Urbanists: Green Infrastructure for the 22nd Century, American Society of Landscape Architects-New York Conference, New York, NY 2018.

Give Back Holiday Market, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY 2017.

Wild Crochet Artist Talk, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY 2017.

September Work In Progress Residency, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY, 2017.

MArch Thesis Exhibition, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2017.

Parsons Festival, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2017.

Publications

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2678-837X

Diedre Brown, Harrison J. Trethowan, Tori Coleman, Progga Bhuyan, & Elizabeth Hénaff. (2023). Urban Aerobiome Microclimates-Field Notes & Map for Fort Greene Park Brought to you by the Hénaff Laboratory for Living Interfaces (Version v1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21701600

Diedre Brown, Harrison J. Trethowan, Tori Coleman, Progga Bhuyan, & Elizabeth Hénaff. (2023). Urban Aerobiome Microclimates-A Coloring Book Brought to You by the Hénaff Laboratory for Living Interfaces (Version v1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21702369

Irene Lopatovska, Olivia Turpin, Ji Hee Yoon, Diedre Brown, Laura Vroom, Craig Nielsen, Kelli Hayes, Karin Roslund, Mary Dickson, Daniel Anger. (2022). Measuring the Impact of Conversational Technology Interventions on Adolescent Wellbeing: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59: 192-204. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.639

Irene Lopatovska, Olivia Turpin, Ji Hee Yoon, Diedre Brown, Laura Vroom. (2022). Talk it Out: Teen Reactions to a Supportive Conversational Agent. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59: 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.615

Irene Lopatovska, Radhika Garg, Olivia Turpin, Ji Hee Yoon, Laura Vroom, Diedre Brown. (2022). The kids are alright: Adolescents’ experiences during COVID-19 disruption. Information and Learning Sciences, 123 (9/10), 529-554. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-11-2021-0096

Irene Lopatovska, Diedre Brown, Elena Korshakova. (2022). Contextual Perceptions of Feminine-, Masculine-, and Gender-Ambiguous-Sounding Voices of Conversational Agents: What if Alexa Wasn’t Always a Girl?. In: Smits, M. (eds) Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future. Conference 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_38

Irene Lopatovska, Elena Korshakova, Diedre Brown. (2021). Effects of Gendered Voices on Personality Perceptions of Conversational User Interfaces. In Let’s Talk About CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice at the 2021 ACM CHI Conference. Online. https://bit.ly/2SmqVL7

Irene Lopatovska, Elena Korshakova, Diedre Brown, Karen Li, MJ Min, Amber Pasiak, Kaige Zheng. (2021). User Perceptions of an Intelligent Personal Assistant’s Personality: The Role of Interaction Context. 2021 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2021), https://doi.org/10.1145/3406522.3446018.

Diedre Brown. (2017). BioArcHabitat: Defining the Resilient Space Between Nature and Urbanism. In Parsons SCE (Eds.), Parsons SCE 2017 Graduate Thesis Compendium. Blurb.

Archived Works

Brown, Diedre. (1 Nov 2018). “The Significance of Le Musée Clemenceau in Presenting Paris's Historic Interiors”. Musée Clemenceau.

Bibliography

Thompson, F. (19 June 2020). Friday, June 19th: Diedre Brown. Rag & Bone Bindery.

Kambadur, Vaishnavi. (22 Feb 2018). Celebrating Female Contemporary Artists During African-American History Month. Textile Arts Center Blog.

Santanilla, Laura Erazo. (15 Sept 2017). Work in Progress: Diedre Brown. Textile Arts Center Blog.

Seiler, Stacy. (01 Oct 2017). Diedre Brown is Reclaiming Urban Coastlines One Stitch at a Time. iRK Magazine.

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