Debra Brown

Debra has over 25 years experience starting and growing businesses and nonprofit organizations. As a social impact entrepreneur, she has become accustomed to doing whatever it takes to get an initiative off the ground. She has also served in a variety of positions with organizations that have helped her cultivate a skill set that includes program design and implementation, community organizing, partnership development and ecosystem building, strategic planning, collaborative leadership deployment, process and protocol development, institutional and grassroots fundraising, and impact-focused evaluation. Debra is particularly passionate about participant-led program design and implementation, and bringing community partners into the work in meaningful ways. Her lived experience with the caregiving sector after her mother (who was a caregiver and ran a caregiving business for 20+ years) suffered two massive brain bleeds makes Debra particularly passionate and motivated to work on this project. You can learn more about Debra via her LinkedIn profile