Brown was educated in the Red Jacket Elementary School, Matewan Elementary and High Schools in Mingo County, West Virginia. She graduated from high school at Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey. She has Bachelor and Master of Arts honor degrees from Howard University.
She conducted post-graduate work in international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies (School of Advanced International Studies) at Johns Hopkins University.
She has served in several diplomatic posts during her career with the United States. Department of State including United States. ambassador to Benin. President Obama nominated Brown for the ambassadorial post to Burkina Faso on July 2, 2009. She was confirmed by the Senate on August 4.
Before joining the Department of State, Ambassador Brown was a Special Assistant to the Agency for International Development (United States Agency for International Development) Assistant Administrator for Africa and a legislative assistant in the House of Representatives of the United States. Congress.
Brown’s postings with the Department of State have included: Ambassador to Benin Counselor for Political Affairs at the United States. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa United States. Consul General at the American Consulate General and concurrently as the United States. Deputy Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France Chief of the Economic and Commercial Sections at the United States. Embassies in Harare, Zimbabwe. And Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Desk Officer for Canada, Senegal, Guinea, and Mauritania at the State Department in Washington Economic Officer/Regional United States Agency for International Development (United States Agency for International Development) Representative and Finance and Development Officer at the United States. Embassies in Paris and Abidjan Representative of the State Department Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Organization of European Cooperation and Development) Export Cr Arrangement negotiations Two Department of State Superior Honor and is associated with the Community Church of Iselin, New Jersey.
Lady of the Golden Horseshoe (West Virginia state academic honor) Among the first women Rotarians in Tanzania Charter member of the New Jersey Edison Township High School Alumni Hall of Fame Two Department of State Superior Honor Awards State Department Meritorious Honor Award Honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority and Sandown Rotary Club in Johannesburg, South Africa Ambassador Brown speaks English, French and Swahili. She writes poetry, enjoys reading (particularly mystery novels), and loves dancing, tennis, t"ai chi, and music (especially gospel, soul, jazz, classical). She is a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church (Pilgrim Circle) in Washington, District of Columbia and is associated with the Community Church of Iselin, New Jersey.
Charter member of the New Jersey Edison Township High School Alumni Hall of Fame
Honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority and Sandown Rotary Club in Johannesburg, South Africa
She is a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church (Pilgrim Circle) in Washington, District of Columbia
