Marvelyn Brown "The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive"

Marvelyn Brown, a 25-year-old native Tennessean, was diagnosed with HIV at the age of 19. Since then, she has moved both live and television audiences around the globe with her compelling personal story. In the past five years, Brown has spoken at hundreds of colleges, universities, churches and conferences worldwide. Her autobiography The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive, which chronicles these times, was published in August 2008 and currently has 25,000 books in print. The success of this book has prompted her to continue writing as she is currently working on her second non-fiction book.

Brown has also been featured on television shows, radio programs and print media— The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, CNN's Black In America, America’s Next Top Model, CBS’s The Early Show, numerous BET Rap It Up and MTV’s Staying Alive programming and many others. She has been featured on the covers of A&U, POZ and The Ave.

In 2007, Brown, along with directors Joel Schumacher and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, won the Emmy for Outstanding National Public Service Announcement for MTV Think. In addition to these accomplishments she was featured in the ambitious woman section of savvymiss.com and the National Association of People With AIDS presented Marvelyn with the Tarsha Durhant Positive Youth Leadership Award and she also received the Courage Under Fire Award from Choice USA.

Event Details

Date: Jan. 27, 2010 7:00 or 7:30 PM
Location: UC Auditorium
Cost:

Upcoming WCC Events

• Marvelyn Brown "The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive"
  Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
  Presented by WCC
• Guerrilla Girls on Tour : "Feminists Are Funny"
  Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010
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