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Deondra Brown for Utah State Senate
Deondra Brown is a tireless advocate for victims of child abuse and sexual violence, and an engaged member of our community. Through her performances with The 5 Browns piano group, her legislative advocacy with the Foundation for Survivors of Abuse, and her work in...
Engaging the Hope Within Us, an Interview with Deondra and Gregory Brown
On today’s episode, “Engaging the Hope Within Us,” our guests are award-winning classical pianists and siblings Gregory and Deondra Brown of The 5 Browns. When we think of classical music, we often think only of the beauty of it, not also of the pain and vulnerability...
No Time Like Now for New Gillibrand/Moore Bill
Original post by DENISE ROIG For survivors of childhood sexual abuse, the No Time Limit for Justice Act has been a long time coming. Introduced last month by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and U.S. Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI-4), and co-sponsored...
Deondra Brown lobbies for teaching consent in school sex ed
SALT LAKE CITY — Child sex abuse survivor Deondra Brown, testifying to a legislative committee Wednesday urging their support of HB177, which would add the teaching of consent to Utah’s sex education standards, revealed she is also a rape survivor. “I am also a rape...
Deondra Brown Seeks to Offer Hope to Child Sex Abuse Survivors
By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com As a member of the virtuoso piano-playing siblings, The 5 Browns, Deondra Brown has been kept busy lately with the December 2019 release of their Christmas album and recording a new classical one. Brown also...
Utah: Children’s Justice Centers Launch New Shine Child Abuse Support Initiative
UTAH ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE, CHILDREN’S JUSTICE CENTERS LAUNCH NEW SHINE CHILD ABUSE SUPPORT INITIATIVESHINE Campaign Lead By Survivors Rabbi Avremi Zippel, Former Senator Aaron Osmond and Musician Deondra Brown SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Attorney General’s Office...
Honorary Doctorates
We are honored to add UVU to our collective degrees! Everything from the actual performance, to the speaking, the hooding, rehearsal, and being with amazing President Tuminez (UVU President) felt like we were living in some alternate universe. Definitely one...
The 5 Browns get real: Digging Through the Darkness
SALT LAKE CITY ( News4Utah) – Deondra Brown says she considers child sex abuse equal to murder – the murder of a child’s soul. A decade after she and her two sisters realized they had all been sexually abused by their father, the members of the...
Digging Through The Darkness; Trailer
Independently produced by the award-winning filmmaker, Ben Niles (Note by Note, Some Kind of Spark), “Digging Through the Darkness” takes an intimate look at The 5 Browns, a group of sibling pianists with a meteoric rise to stardom only to be devastated years later by...