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Patricia Leigh Brown Fall semester 2009-2010 Photo by Doug Cogger
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Patricia Leigh Brown is a contributing writer for The New York Times and Architectural Digest, based in San Francisco. For 14 years she was a staff writer for the House & Home section of The Times in New York, where she reported on everything from prairie churches in North Dakota to basement voodoo temples in Brooklyn. Since moving to California ten years ago, Patti has shed light on unsung corners of the state and its cultural landscape, writing stories that often appear on the front page of the paper. Her subjects over the past year have included articles on Mexican rodeos in California; the design of this year's Oscars; a controversial museum design for San Francisco's Presidio; an essay for The New York Times Magazine on the pot-luck dinner that has been held on her block for 18 years and the "garage sale" economy spawned by home foreclosures in the Central Valley. She is currently working on a series of articles on Fremont, California, one of the country's new "ethnoburbs." She has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. As a Loeb Fellow, Patti will study civic engagement, landscape history, urbanism, multi-cultural law, and the role of community in challenging economic times. She is particularly interested in the changing ethnic demographics of the suburbs and new housing models for aging baby boomers.
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