Kimberly Brown is a lawyer with more than 15 years of experience living and working across four continents on human rights, the rule of law, and gender equality. She is an inaugural Obama Foundation Scholar, and holds a Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, a master’s degree in International Development and Policy from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University.

At present Kimberly is Associate Director with The Carter Center’s Rule of Law Program, and previously served as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation where she worked on accelerating progress on Sustainable Development Goal 16 (peace, justice, inclusion). Previously, she managed International Development Law Organization’s programs in Kenya relating to access to justice and gender reforms towards implementation of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. Prior to that she spearheaded Equality Now’s Adolescent Girls’ Legal Defense Fund programming throughout Africa on issues relating to human rights and combatting sexual and gender based violence through international advocacy campaigns and human rights litigation. She has also worked with the International Law Institute-African Centre for Legal Excellence in Kampala, Uganda, the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (UNAKRT), and the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Kimberly currently serves on the Global Advisory Board for the Institute for African Women in the Law, as an advisor to Panama based Climate Resilient think tank, and as a board member of the National Center for Peace and Democracy in Afghanistan.

Fun fact: In normal times, Kimberly loves traveling and can often be found planning her next adventure. During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, she has enjoyed cultivating her inherited green thumb from her mother. As for her favorite plants – from nearly a decade living and working in East Africa – she has a particular fondness for jacaranda season and bougainvillea blooms.