KIMBERLY FREEMAN BROWN

Kimberly Freeman Brown (she/her) is a community organizer turned transformational change consultant and a founding partner of the organizational development consulting firm Imagine Us. In the 1990s, she was mentored by Civil Rights Movement icons to organize Freedom Schools across the country and has since served social justice organizations in various roles, including as executive director of American Rights at Work, a unionized national labor policy organization that merged with Jobs with Justice in 2012. She is the author of five reports on the work and leadership of women of color, most notably And Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voices, Power and Promise(2015), released by the Institute of Policy Studies.  As an organizational development consultant, coach, and communications strategist to social change leaders and organizations for over a decade, her work is rooted in building the capacity of leaders and organizations to fully embody values of racial equity, inclusion, and social justice.