Kate Brown grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At Wesleyan University she studied pop music, shopping malls, and Graceland, earning a B.A. in American Studies and Sociology. After two years working on dictionaries and encyclopedias (and padding her Trivial Pursuit record), she joined StoryCorps' Door-to-Door team. Kate lives in Brooklyn where she mostly bakes cupcakes for her kickball team.
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Follow our facilitators as they collect stories across the country.