Taj Brown
Taj Brown has provided broadscale management services for diverse nonprofits, businesses and individuals specializing in programs, strategy and training for more than 25 years. He has built organizational capacity and delivered services through multilateral efforts for organizations such as the Children’s Defense Fund, Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, U.S. Soccer Foundation, Equal Rights Amendment Coalition, Black Women of Chester County in Action, LEAD InterGenerational Solutions, Opportunities and Industrialization Centers of America, GlobalHue and the Conference of National Black Churches, among other groups.
He served on the NAACP’s National Board of Directors for five years and was Julian Bond's appointee to the Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the National Education Committee. He also has been a board member or advisor for the Belafonte TACOLCY Center in Miami, FL; the Northeast Area Development Corporation in Rochester, NY; and, One Common Unity, the NAACP National LGBTQIA+ Task Force, and ReGender (formerly the National Council for Research on Women), all in Washington, DC. Since 1997, he has helped to manage a therapeutic summer retreat for children who are impacted by HIV/AIDS, entitled Camp Dreamcatcher.
Taj is the recipient of numerous honors including the Carter G. Woodson Award presented jointly by the National Education Association and Woodson’s own Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans’ Community Leadership Award, and the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins Award. He holds a BA from Lock Haven University and certificates from the Harvard Business School's Executive Education Social Enterprise and Nonprofits Program in Cambridge, MA; the International Program of Spanish Culture and Studies at the University of Malaga in Ronda, Spain; the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Institute at Villanova University in PA; and the Practical Project Management Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.