Keri Brown

Associate Director, News and Communications

Keri Brown joined the news team in 2022 after working as a host and reporter for NPR-affiliate 88.5 WFDD for 11 years. As a journalist, Keri has covered a wide variety of topics and has received multiple awards for her feature and enterprise reporting.  Before moving to North Carolina, she worked with West Virginia Public Broadcasting and produced stories for the state’s public television and public radio programs. In this role, she also taught journalism courses at Wheeling University and Bethany College and produced STEM stories as part of a partnership with NASA funded education centers. She is a graduate of Ohio University where she earned her B.S. in Communication from the Scripps College of Communication.

Keri enjoys telling the stories of Wake Forest University and working with students, faculty and staff.


Stories by Keri


When marine algae get sick: how viruses shape microbe interactions

By looking at the tiniest virus-infected microbes in the ocean, researchers are gaining new insights about the marine food web that may help improve future climate change predictions. The new study, co-authored by Wake Forest Assistant Professor of Biology Sheri Floge, brings together viral ecologists, chemists and physicists to find out more about marine microbes…


Wake Forest launches Center for Literacy Education

Wake Forest University has launched the Center for Literacy Education to explore how literacy education can strengthen individuals and communities through teaching, research, creative activities and programming. In today’s world, literacy means more than the ability to read and write. “Literacy affects all aspects of how we live and learn,” said Alan Brown, director of…


Former members of Congress bring civic education to Wake Forest

Wake Forest University welcomed two former Congressional representatives to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 22, as part of a program called Congress to Campus. Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Barbara Comstock (R-VA) met with students throughout the day to talk about their career journeys, finding bipartisanship and the importance of civic engagement.   “Part of the mission of…