Michael Brown

Michael Jacoby Brown has worked for over 30 years as a community organizer and trainer in a variety of settings. He has worked as a community organizer for the Vermont Alliance, Massachusetts Fair Share, B’nai B’rith, The National Jobs with Peace Campaign, Metropolitan Interfaith Congregations Acting for Hope, and as a trainer and consultant for numerous community, labor, religious, government and health organizations. He is also the founder and former Executive Director of the Jewish Organizing Initiative, a community and labor organizing training program. He has also worked as a high school teacher, construction worker, founded and edited a community newspaper and been an elected official. He has a BA from Columbia University and an MPA from The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World. (Long Haul Press, 2007) He has served on the Board of Congregation Beth El, Sudbury, MA. He also currently serves as a Board member of the National Organizers Alliance, a national organization of labor and community organizers, and the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, and provides training and consulting services to unions and community groups. Current clients include SEIU-1199 Health Care Workers East, The Dracut School System and the Dracut Teachers Association, The Governor’s Youth Council and NeighborWorks America, JustAStart Community Development Corporation, MassPort and others.