DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a writer, music and media theorist, and curator. Brown releases music under his own name as well as by the moniker Speaker Music. Brown is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. His written work traverses "the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music." It has appeared in Artforum, Triple Canopy, NPR, CTM Festival, Mixmag, among many others.