Keri Brown

Associate Director, News and Communications

brownkl@wfu.edu

336.758.4442

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

Next week’s Harris/Trump presidential debate

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to face off in their first presidential debate on September 10. Wake Forest University political communications expert Nate French can offer insight on why the timing of this presidential debate matters and how it could set the stage for a winning White House campaign. 

Categories: Experts

Teens from Title I schools dive into STEM with WFU program

WF LEAP offers these students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on lab research experience while earning a paid internship. The goal is to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented youth and minorities in the STEM education pipeline. The program pairs each student with a Wake Forest professor and a co-mentor, who guide them through the foundations of their discipline and research. Over six weeks, from June 17 to July 26, students work on individual projects ranging from cancer cell responses to water treatment technology to improving muscle mass for older adults.

Categories: Community Impact

Media advisory: High schoolers showcase STEM research at WF Leap

This summer, 25 high school students from six Title I Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools are participating in the Wake Forest LEAP ( (Lab Experiences: Academics and Professions) program. Among them is Autumn Taylor, a 15-year-old rising junior at Glenn High School who loves building theater sets and dreams of becoming an architect or structural engineer. WF LEAP offers these students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on lab research experience while earning a paid internship. The goal is to increase the number of traditionally underrepresented youth and minorities in the STEM education pipeline.

Categories: University Announcements

High stakes: WFU expert previews first 2024 presidential debate

Millions of Americans are expected to watch the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. In this Q&A, Wake Forest University associate teaching professor Nate French, an expert on political communication, explains how this first presidential debate differs from first debates in past elections and why the stakes are so high for both parties.

Categories: Experts