About

My professional background includes leadership roles across nonprofit, arts, and educational organizations. I currently serve as the Executive Director of a literary arts nonprofit and an adjunct professor. I have extensive experience designing programs, leading teams, managing operations, and working with community-based and institutional partners.

My academic training includes doctoral- and master’s-level study in education, information systems, and organizational leadership. I have taught at the university level and facilitated learning experiences for adults, youth, and professionals in both academic and community settings for over two decades. 

This combination of creative practice, formal education, and executive leadership shapes how I approach speaking, teaching, and consulting work.

My creative work includes art, writing, music, and collaborative projects. These practices explore memory, power, incarceration, family, spirituality, humanism, and liberation, and often live at the intersection of personal experience and collective history.

A central part of this work is my ongoing creative collaboration with my brother, Oscar Brown, who has been incarcerated in Pennsylvania since 2006 and is serving a death by incarceration sentence. Our shared projects use writing and visual work to center voice, dignity, and connection across separation, and continue to inform how I think about justice, narrative, and care.

As a person who sees the big picture and the fine details all at once, I bring a systems-level understanding to creative and cultural work, and a creative lens to leadership and organizational life. I value transparency, collaboration, honesty, and joy, in everything that I do.

• Doctor of Education - Higher & Postsecondary Education
• Doctor of Science - Information Systems & Communications
• Master of Science - Information Systems & Technology, Usability Studies
• Master of Business Administration - Management Information Systems
• Bachelor of Business Administration - Computer Information Systems

• Over 20 years of experience in adult & higher education, including teaching & administration
• Over 10 years of experience in nonprofit, arts, and community development, leadership, and engagement.