Education
Tisch School of the Arts.
Tisch School of the Arts.
She has actively demonstrated against the war, and in support of soldiers. Lowery is also the creator of the website Peace Takes Courage, and she and her work have received national media attention in 2005 and 2006, including interviews on Fox News. She is noted for her creation of an online animation, "WWJD" (which stands for "What Would Jesus Do?").
This flash-based animation displays photographs of wounded Iraqi children and suggests what we should do from a Christian angle over the song "Jesus Loves Maine."
She is also a person of interest in the blog world, and was a featured speaker at the 2006 YearlyKos Convention.
Mississippi Lowery"s appearance of the 2006 Kos Convention was described by Adam Cohen of the New York Times, who noted that "it shows that a 15-year-old with video software and Internet access can now create and disseminate a professional-quality political adjunct"
Lowery conceived and organized the "16 Candles for Soldiers" event. This rally in support of the troops and against the war was held on the steps of the Alabama state capital in Montgomery on October 21, 2006.
Lowery and her activism were profiled at length in the 28 January 2007 edition of the Mobile Press-Register. In 2009 she completed a feature-length documentary profiling three veterans of the war in Iraq titled FALLOUT: Coming Home from the War in Iraq.
Lowery was a homeschooled student from grades 7 through 12.
She graduated from New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film & Television and sociology in May 2013. Currently she is pursuing a masters at Duke University.