Brown is immediate past chairman of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, and serves on the boards of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame and the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Macon, Ga., native earned his bachelor’s and doctorate of education degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Brown served on the faculty of Old Dominion University before joining Hampton University as dean of the School of Education. He joined Savannah State as its 11th president in 1997.
— Toni Coleman
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