Community Engagement and Equity Specialist
Dr. Brown is a Post-Doctorate Scholar at the Safe Communities Institute at University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, where she works on the police reform initiative, on the National LEWIS (Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System) Registry, and with the Department of Public Safety Community Advisory Board Co-Chairs. Dr. Brown’s work and research focus on social justice issues. She teaches macro courses in the schools of Social Work, Education, and Policy. Dr. Brown has administered graduate-level programs; created curricula, policies, and procedures; and managed staff and faculty. As principal of Brown & Associates, Inc., she has expertise on policy analysis, evaluation, strategic planning, program development, advocacy, training, facilitation, and equity initiatives. She has consulted on projects to improve the social welfare of individuals and to reduce the occurrence of racial, gender, and age discrimination in employment, housing, and lending. In addition, Dr. Brown has participated in place-based initiatives to increase the capacity of residents and developed strategies to increase the participation of minorities in the labor force and in politics. She has been selected to participate in Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce leadership programs and was invited to interview at the Obama White House for a political appointment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Thank you very much for a comprehensive report. Thank you.”
Palm Springs
“I really want to express my appreciation for this work that’s been done in a collaborative way in which the study was put together. . . . I’ve seen a number of studies start in the fire department and this is the first one I can remember that has actually been fully completed and brought to the council, and it was done in a very thorough fashion. This is the best assemblage of comprehensive information about the fire department today, as well as what our needs might be in the future, that I have seen. So thanks to everyone. Thank you, Stewart, for giving us our money’s worth on our consultant contract with you.”
City Manager City of San Luis Obispo
“I am very much appreciative of Citygate’s comprehensive view of all the issues. And you have been very candid and very forthright in the problem areas that you have identified and we appreciate that. Quite often sometimes people choose to gloss over those issues and therefore we never can get a real good handle on the problem to resolve it. And I very much appreciate your insight and your intuitive natures that you have all experienced in your government services and trying to identify where our problem areas are so we can identify for the public. I very much appreciate the idea and the comments that you made that we are talking about the citizens who come to the planning Department as customers. And so you’ve done a great service for us and we are certainly appreciative of all your efforts.”
Commissioner Jackson County
“[Stu Gary’s] knowledge, expertise, and demeanor were invaluable in our efforts to ferret out a fair agreement with the City. I could go on and on about Stu, but you already know all of the superlatives.”
AAE, General Manager Monterey Regional Airport
“Thank you so much for all you have done. And it’s so comprehensive, I know it’s going to take a while for us to digest it all, but I think you’ve come up with some really good recommendations.”
Pro Tempore City of Vista, CA
“I was absolutely thrilled with the report because it was very comprehensive, very detailed. I call it the ‘time-in-motion study’ almost and some of the aspects [are] ‘how does your paper flow? How can you make your processes better? . . . As a government agency, how can we provide better service to the constituents?’ And to us we think that this study identifies those things down to all of the small paper processes and flows.”
Retired City Manager City of Vista, CA