[1][2] Brown was a very active young person: she was a competitive artistic gymnast, runner and skier before her freak accident in March 2008 in a gymnastics training session; she sustained an incomplete spinal cord injury when she was twelve years old where she broke two vertebrae and was paralysed from the neck down.

She spent many years of spinal cord and brain injury physical rehabilitation at Shepherd Center in Atlanta which gave her excruciating pain in her left leg caused by avascular necrosis before she joined her high school rowing team as a coxswain at Falmouth High School.

Brown bought her first modified road bike when she attended first year at University of Puget Sound to use as a means of transport and to keep fit and healthy.

Once she graduated from college, she worked at a bike touring company and this was where she met someone who works for the Paralympic Advisory Committee and she then decided to join the United States Paralympic Committee to become a competitive para-cyclist.

[4] Her first international competition was an invitation by her then-coach to participate in the Para-cycling World Cup in 2018 at Baie-Comeau in Canada where she was third in the road race and fourth in the time trial.