In 2020 she was appointed director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University, with a term starting in August 2021.
Brown studied political science at Howard University, obtaining a BA in 2004.
[6] The book was reviewed positively not just for its substantive findings, but also for its analytical approach, with Muireann O'Dwyer writing that it "delivered an answer to the enduring question of how exactly intersectionality can be brought to bear on the empirical questions of social science".
[8] Brown was chosen as the American Political Science Association's Member of the Month for April 2019.
[9] She has also been a member of the editorial board of the political science expert database Women Also Know Stuff.