Shirley Brown-Alleyne
Associate Director of Education, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
What I do at The New York Public Library
As the Associate Director of Education at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Shirley Brown Alleyne loves history and finding new ways to teach all subjects using history.
Why The New York Public Library
Life is always easier if you are yourself.
Who am I?
Prior to joining New York Public Library, she served as the Director of School and Teacher Programs at the Tenement Museum. Previously as the Manager of Education at the Center for Brooklyn History (formerly Brooklyn Historical Society), she managed the game changing Brooklyn Connections program. At Brooklyn Historical Society, Shirley served as the Interim Acting Director of Education and Manager of Teaching and Learning. There, she managed and supervised the 2019 AASLH Leadership in History award-winning program Young Scholars program, the 2019 Brooklyn DA Community Impact Award recipient, BHS Teen Council Program at BHS Pierrepont, 2017 NAHYP award- winning Teen Innovators afterschool program at BLDG 92, and, family and school programs at multiple sites.
Ms. Brown Alleyne has taught as an adjunct at Bank Street College, Fashion Institute of Technology, and education classes at Medgar Evers College, including Sociology of Urban Education and Critical Issues in the History of US Education, dealing with sensitive issues in education, and Teaching Methods: Social Studies.
Ms. Brown Alleyne has taught as an adjunct at Bank Street College, Fashion Institute of Technology, and education classes at Medgar Evers College, including Sociology of Urban Education and Critical Issues in the History of US Education, dealing with sensitive issues in education, and Teaching Methods: Social Studies.
She has taught at various institutions including the Apollo Theater, Museum of the City of New York, the South Street Seaport Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York Historical Society, and Lefferts Homestead. Previously, Shirley was the Director of Education for A C Gilbert’s Discovery Village in Salem, Oregon and for the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to her museum work, she taught middle and high school in New York City, and worked at Radio City Music Hall’s Guest Relations and Concert divisions.
Shirley received her BS in Secondary Education, with a concentration in Social Studies, from Niagara University; her MSED was earned at Bank Street College in the Educational Leadership in Museums program. She part of Lehman College’s third cohort for their new Doctor of Education (EDD) program. Ms. Brown-Alleyne enjoys exploring natural settings and reading buildings.
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