A native of Mobile and Selma, Alabama, Ms. Brown began her non-profit career in youth leadership and program development. As the co-director of 21^st Century Youth Leadership Movement, she established a Youth Opportunity Job Development Center, launched technology centers in 7 rural Alabama communities, developed and managed youth programs, organized national youth camps, reactivated 15 youth chapters nationally and internationally and trained over 1000 African American youth leaders in the areas of civic engagement, leadership development, and community organizing.

Ms. Brown is an experienced political strategist and project director, having served as the Southern Regional Director for the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Founder of the Alabama branch of the aforementioned organization, State Advisor for Georgia Black Youth Vote, State Director for the NAACP Voter Fund and as a grass roots political organizer on a variety of successful campaigns.

Ms. Brown is also active in the field of women’s rights, having worked with national women’s organizations such as the White House Project, the Hariou Commission and the Women Coalition for Dignity and Diversity in the Media.

In 2005, as America witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Brown founded the Saving Our Selves Coalition (SOS Coalition), a regional relief and recovery effort that provided infrastructure and support to poor and marginalized communities in the Gulf Coast region. Soon after, LaTosha became a founding Advisory Group member of the Gulf Coast Fund (GCF). The organization provides grants to grassroots groups in the region to promote local organizing and empowerment, and it has been involved in the rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. After serving as an Advisor and consultant to the GCF, she was appointed to be its first Director in June 2010.

In addition to her domestic experience, Ms. Brown has served as an international human rights trainer. She assisted international women’s leader, Hafsat Abiola, in establishing the Kudirat Institute for Nigerian Democracy (KIND) technology center in Lagos, Nigeria.

Furthermore, she has presented and trained internationally at the World Social Forum in Venezuela, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Quebec Canada, and a United Nations Development Program Conference in Bangkok Thailand.

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