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15 October 2024 President’s Forum Series: LaTosha Brown
Award-winning political organizer, strategist and advocate LaTosha Brown joins the President’s Forum Series for a conversation about voter engagement.
On Monday, Oct. 21, the President’s Forum Series welcomes LaTosha Brown, community organizer and co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund.
Brown will join the HWS community virtually for a conversation with President Mark D. Gearan and the campus audience about grassroots activism, political empowerment and social change. The conversation will begin at 5 p.m. in the Vandervort Room of the Scandling Campus Center.
Brown is an award-winning organizer, philanthropic consultant, political strategist and jazz singer who works at the intersection of social justice, political empowerment, human development and the cultural arts. She has spent decades in the non-profit and philanthropy sectors focused on political organizing, social justice, economic development, leadership development, wealth creation and civil rights.
In 2016, Brown co-founded Black Voters Matter Fund, a civic engagement organization that played an instrumental role in the 2017 Alabama U.S. Senate race. She is principal owner of TruthSpeaks Consulting, Inc., a philanthropy advisory consulting firm in Atlanta. For more than 25 years, she has served as a consultant and advisor for individual donors, government, public foundations and private donors.
Throughout her career, Brown has distinguished herself as a trusted expert and resource in political strategy, rural development and special programming for a number of national and regional philanthropies. She is the founding project director of Grantmakers for Southern Progress, a membership-based network of philanthropic leaders, practitioners, and individuals dedicated to leveraging resources for structural change in the South.
Brown serves on the board of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the Southern Documentary Fund, the U.S. Human Rights Network and the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. She has been featured on CNN, HBO, MSNBC and Fox, and is the recipient of the Bridge Jubilee Award, the Liberty Bell Award, the White House Champion of Change Award, the 2006 Spirit of Democracy Award and the Louis Burnham Award for Human Rights.
Established in 2000 by President Mark D. Gearan, the President's Forum Series brings a variety of speakers to campus to share their knowledge and ideas with students, faculty and staff, as well as with interested community members.
