Dr. Brown was born in Kansas City Missouri, March 31, 1935. He and
his now deceased older brother, Alvin H. Walton Brown, attended Attucks
Elementary School in Kansas City. Both also attended Sumner High School in
Boonville, Missouri, and Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Dr. Brown's wife is retired after 22 years as residence services supervisor
with the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission. They live in
Rockville, MD, have an adult married son, and two grandchildren.
Dr. Brown's educational background includes a
bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Lincoln University, a masters
degree in psychiatric social work from Atlanta University, and a doctorate
degree in public administration from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Brown is a retired
federal executive presently engaged in number of professional, community,
family, and personal development activities. He co-teaches a course in
leadership values and ethics at the George Washington University, and
provides management-consulting services to the Leadership Development
Academy of the Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and
to other organizations.
Dr. Brown meets weekly
with a fifth grader at Highland View Elementary School in Silver Spring, MD
as part of a mentoring program entitled Young Black Men with Promise. Until
recently, he co-chaired a Montgomery County Steering Committee on Diversity
and Community Empowerment, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, through
Bowie State University's Institute for Diversity and Multi-cultural Affairs.
The last 9 years of Dr.
Brown's federal career was with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in headquarters Washington, DC. He served as Director
of the Aerospace Education Division, where he managed the Teacher in Space
Program, and later became the Deputy Associate Administrator for Human
Resources and Education, until retiring in July 1994. His 36-year federal
career covered a diverse array of clinical, technical, managerial, and
executive positions in 7 agencies. Included were the Veterans Administration
Neuropsychiatric Hospital; the Department of Health, Education and Welfare=s
U.S. Repatriation and Cuban Refugee Program, and the National Institute of
Mental Health; the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; the Brookings
Institution; the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; the Federal Executive
Institute; and NASA. He was a charter member of the Senior Executive Service
established in 1978, and at the time of retirement from NASA, he had reached
the highest career rank of SES VI.
In July of 1994, Dr.
Brown was appointed Senior Associate to the Director of the Graduate School,
USDA where he designed, developed, and coordinated the School=s
strategic plan. During his 6-year stint with the School he also served as
Director of the International Institute for Training and Education. He
retired for a second time in March 2000.
His international
experiences include programming for the U.S. Repatriation and Cuban Refugee
Program; a Visiting Professorship at the Australian Administration Staff
College; and presentations on aerospace education in Austria, India,
Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
Among Dr. Brown's
publications are articles on supervisory development, executive stress,
performance appraisal, aerospace education, and cultural diversity. His
performance recognition includes HEW=s
Distinguished Service Award in 1976; a Brookings Institution Federal
Fellowship in 1977; the SES Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in 1989; the
NASA Medal of Outstanding Leadership in 1992; the Challenger Seven Award in
1992; and the SES Presidential Distinguished Rank Award in 1992.
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