A member of the Real Talk Avenue Collective, Robert co-curates Real Talk Live, Chicago’s most raucous variety show. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, both as visual & performance art. Brown is a teaching artist at the American Jazz Museum and works as a Mentor Fellow in the Writing Center at Columbia College—he studies poetry at Columbia. A slam poet, Robert competed at the Brave New Voices Poetry Festival multiple times, as a pioneering member of his hometown’s youth poetry slam team. He is working on his first full length book of poems, tentatively titled Grapevine.