Brown joined University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences (UK) in 2007 as an assistant professor.
[1] From 2017 to 2019, Brown was chair of the Society for Research in Child Development Equity and Justice Committee.
Her studies have included examining the perceptions of discrimination by authority figures such as coaches and teachers and sexual harassment of girls.
Brown investigates discrimination of immigrant children and parents in studies funded by the Foundation for Child Development and the UK Center for Poverty Research.
She is conducting a multi-site study under Rebecca Bigler that exams children's understanding of the relationships between race, poverty, politics, and gender.