Christal Brown

2022 Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts

Christal Brown of Middlebury is the Founder of INSPIRIT, Project: BECOMING, and the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance. She also serves as an Associate Professor of Dance, Posse Mentor, Twilight Artist in Residence and Director of the Anti-Racist Task Force at Middlebury College while also serving the public sphere as the Chief Visioning Officer of Steps and Stages Coaching, LLC. Brown is a native of Kinston, NC, where she remembers accompanying her mother to NAACP meetings and performing at Black Caucus rallies. This early exposure to social responsibility innately produced a strong desire in Brown to tell the stories of the oppressed and develop physical narratives that inspired power.