Zoë Gamell Brown is a queer Boviander Guyanese American integrative artist, educator, and storyteller based in Kalapuya Ilihi. Their work explores multiplicity within Guyanese relationality, extending from and beyond South American shores to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Coast through ceramics, culinary catharsis, creative nonfiction, experimental video, restorative cartography and photopoetry.

Brown is a doctoral student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies’ inaugural cohort and a New Media Culture Certificate recipient. They are a teaching apprentice with Literary Art’s Writers in the Schools, a Seeding Justice Lila Jewel award winner, and a Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellow through the UO College of Arts and Sciences. She founded Fernland Studios in 2020 to reimagine environmentalism through artist residencies, educational retreats, and writing workshops for and with communities of color: fernlandstudios.org.

They received a Digital Evolution/Artist Retention Fellowship through the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and a Louise Westling Distinguished Environmental Justice Fellowship through the UO Pacific Northwest Racial and Climate Justice Futures Institute and the Holden Center for Leadership in 2022. Brown was a part of the inaugural Women Innovation Network cohort and a member of the National Education for Women’s Leadership of Oregon through PSU in 2021. Learn more about their work: zoegamell.com