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Education
- Ph.D in Social Welfare with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley (expected)
- Certificate in Applied Data Science, University of California
- Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley
- Master of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
- Bachelor of Social Work, Harding University
Publications
Journal Articles
Brown, C. T. (in press). Contradictions of the ecowelfare state: The state, the human, and nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism.
Brown, C. T. (2025). Ecosocial adaptation and the care professions: A systems-ecological approach to climate risk. Social Work in Public Health, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664.
Brown, C. T. (in press). Ecosocial policy. In Aspalter, C. (ed.), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy. Edward Elgar.
Brown, C. T. (in press). Computational social policy. In Aspalter, C. (ed.), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy. Edward Elgar.
Brik, A. B., & Brown, C. T. (2025). A critical review of conceptualization and measurement of social inclusion: Directions for conceptual clarity. Social Policy and Society, First View, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746425000302.
Brown, C. T., & Ben Brik, A. (2025). Welfare regime typologies: The six worlds of social inclusion. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2024.14.
Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (2025). Temporary measures or lasting reform? Examining Gulf States’ evolving welfare policies in response to the global health crisis. Social Policy & Society, First Look, 1-25. DOI:10.1017/S1474746424000630.
Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000126.
Ben Brik, A. & Brown, C. T. (2024). Global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy: A systematic review and research agenda. Social Policy & Society, 1-24. DOI:10.1017/S147474642400054X.
Brown, C. T., & Gilbert, N. (2024). Comparative social policy. Encyclopedia of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.879.
Grounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (2024). Limitations of ecomodernist climate change mitigation: The case of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the (un)just transition. Critical Social Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183241281349.
Brown, C. T., Mehta, M., Ryali, M., Dong, C., Shadfar, I., Dominquez Davalos, J., Culich, A., & Suen, A. (2024). The data science discovery program: A case for data science consulting in higher education. Stat, 13(2). http://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.677.
Miller, S., Roll, S., Brown, C. T., Brugger, L., & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2024). Which side (of the balance sheet) are you on? Household financial resources and participation in the 2020 protests. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 50(4). https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4671.
Brown, C. T., Ocampa, M. G., Drake, B. (2022). The politics of child welfare: Are child welfare policies, budgets and functioning a red/blue issue? Children and Youth Services Review, 132, 106282. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106282.
Brown, C. T., & Harrold, J. (2021). Widowhood and mental health issues: Predictors of anxiety, depression, and PTSD among those who have been widowed. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373211054189.
Book Chapters
Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (in press). United States: An evolving liberal welfare state—deepening workfare and fragmentation. In Wang J. S.-H. & Marx, I. (eds.), Worlds of Welfare: Comparing Safety Nets Across the Globe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Perone, A., Brown, C. T., Fletcher, K., Urrutia, L. (2025). The five C’s of climate change and caregiving: Moving from catastrophe to cohesive caregiving for older adults. In Pilemer, K & Ayalon, L. (eds.) Aging and climate change. Bristol: Policy Press.
Hamilton, G., & Brown, C. T. (2025). What is environmental justice? In Rogerson, C., & Vandergrift, K. F. (eds.). Introduction to social justice. Solana Beach: Cognella.
Brown, C. T., White, R., Pevits, A., Martin, J. (2023). Civic education and social justice: Moving toward a pedagogy of community organizing and community-based participatory methods. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (eds.). Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, Michigan.
White, R., Brown, C. T., Pevits, A., & Martin, J. (2023). Contextualization of transformative civic education. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (eds.). Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, Michigan.
Policy Briefs
Davidson, T., Brown, C. T., Rathbun, H., Jerolleman, A., Awbrey, M., Guerke, M., Leahy, C., Feliscar, L., Logan, A., Patton, N., & Ferreira, R. (2025). Practitioner perspectives on disaster assistance reform: A roadmap of obstacles to avoid. Full report—Part I of III. Consortium for Emergent Disaster Resilience. https://cedrhub.org/publications/.
Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T., Keh, M. (2025). Geographic and racial disparities in employment, earnings, sanctions, and reentries in CalWORKs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. https://escholarship.org/content/qt9z39r8kv/qt9z39r8kv.pdf.
Bandaru, S., Brown, C. T., Goldstein, E., Serwin, A., & Taylor P. (2021). CLT Policy Playbook. Center for Social Development.
Journalistic
Brown, C. T. (2025, Sep.). Banners across the West Coast call out Chevron’s ties to genocide and climate change. California Red, California Democratic Socialists of America. https://www.californiadsa.org/news/boycottchevron2025sep.
Brown, C. T., Chang, Y. L. (2024, Oct.) Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. The Social Policy Blog. https://socialpolicyblog.com/2024/10/24/ecosocial-policy-and-the-social-risks-of-climate-change-foundations-of-the-u-s-ecosocial-safety-net/.
Brown, C. T. (2023, Sep. 2). Facing climate disasters, young Americans deserve a strong ‘ecosocial’ safety net. The Messenger. https://themessenger.com/opinion/facing-climate-disasters-young-americans-deserve-a-strong-ecosocial-safety-net.
Rivkin-Fish, Z., Fichman, B., & Brown, C. T. (2021, Jul. 8). New opportunities from the Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband to connect your community to the internet. CTC Technology & Energy, https://www.ctcnet.us/blog/new-opportunities-from-the-maryland-office-of-statewide-broadband-to-connect-your-community-to-the-internet/.
Brown, C. T. (2020). We are the cure: How to help our democracy recover from the pandemic. Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/university-wide-initiatives/this-civic-moment/thiscivicmomentseries/thiscivicmoment-taylor-brown/.
Dashboards
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., & Keh, M. (2025). CalWORKs WTW Racial Equity Dashboard, Version 2. https://fssrn.shinyapps.io/CalWORKS-WTW-Racial-Equity-Dashboard/.
Under Review
Brown, C. T., Dolsak, N., & Prakash, A. (under review). Does mitigation delay planning for adaptation? A panel analysis, 1995-2020.
Brown, C. T. & Chang, Y. L. (under review). Hotspots of inequity: Space-time and machine learning of U.S. ecowelfare.
Brown, C. T., Nepomnyashcy, L., Patel, A. S. (under review). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs.
Brown, C. T. (under review). Social inclusion as ecosocial adaptation: The role of inclusion and welfare regimes in adaptation readiness and climate vulnerability in the Global North and South.
Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Fox-Dichter, S., Brown, C. T., Gassman-Pines, A., Rothwell, D., & Nikolova, K. (R&R). A racial equity analysis of state TANF caseload trends: Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Papers
Brown, C. T. (working). Growth, degrowth, and regrowth: The dialectic of adaptation and ecowelfare.
Brown, C. T. (working). Adapting the safety net: The role of climate-adapted and ecowelfare amid climate change.
Brown, C. T. (working). Technocare: A critical theory of technology and care.
Brown, C. T., Wang, J., & Chang, Y.-L. (working). Comparative energy and utility assistance and the welfare state.
Brown, C. T., Dolsak, N., & Prakash, A. (working). Inequality and climate change.
Brown, C. T., Rakasi, M., & Singhvi, A. (working). A divided ecowelfare state?: A network analysis of disaster capitalism and the U.S. ecowelfare state.
Ben Brik, A., Brown, C. T., Liang, Q. (working). Social inclusion in the Middle East and Northern Africa: Methodology for the A-SCOPE Survey in 11 MENA countries.
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., Keh, M. (working). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California.
Liang, Q., Brown, C. T. (working). County racial distribution and racial disparities in welfare sanctions: Exploring group threat and contact theories in California’s TANF system.
Grounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (working). Climate policy (in)equity: Analyzing private incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act for investments in climate vulnerable communities.
Research Experience
Research Assistantships
Racial Equity in the TANF Service Delivery Path to Family Stability and Self-Sufficiency
- Research Assistant
- 2023 - Present
- Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley
- PI: Yu-Ling Chang, Ph.D.
Global Welfare Regime Project
- Research Assistant
- 2023 - Present
- National Taiwan University and University of Hong Kong
- PI: Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Ph.D.
Global Social Inclusion Project
- Research Assistant
- 2023 - Present
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- PI: Anis Ben Brik, Ph.D.
Voter Access and Engagement Initiative
- Graduate Research Assistant
- 2020 - 2021
- Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis
- PI: Gena Gunn McClendon, Ph.D. and Dr. Michael Sherraden
Student Civic and Community Engagement
- Master’s Research Fellow
- 2019 - 2021
- Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Washington University in St. Louis
- Supervisor: Jillian A. Martin, Ph.D.
Beyond Professional Identity
- Research Assistant
- 2018 - 2019
- Harding University
- PI: James Huff, Ph.D.
Research Fellowships
Consortium for Equitable Disaster Resilience
- Research Associate
- 2024 - Present
- Tulane University
- PI: Regardt Ferreira, Ph.D.
CSWE-SSWR-GADE Social Work Doctoral Student Policy Fellowship
- Congressional Doctoral Fellow
- 2023 - 2024
- Mentor: Dr. Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University, Social Work
Social Science Data Laboratory & Data Science Discovery Program
- Senior Data Science and Discovery Fellow
- 2022 - Present
- University of California, Berkeley
PhD Workshop in Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective: Explorations in Durable Inequality
- Doctoral Student
- 2023
- University of California, Berkeley & Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Working Group in Black/Africana Critical Theory
- Doctoral Student
- 2023 - Present
- University of California, Berkeley
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
- Doctoral Student
- 2023
- University of California, Los Angeles
Data Science for Social Justice Workshop
- Doctoral Student
- 2023
- Social Science Data Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Presentations
Organized Panels
Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (2025). Social inclusion in transition: A crossroads of conceptualization, measurement, and policy in global contexts. International Public Policy Association, 2025.
Oral Presentations
Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Climate risk and the welfare state: Exploring the moderation of climate-adaptive welfare and ecowelfare on U.S. welfare enrollment after natural hazards. Society for Social Work Research, 2026.
Grounder, B., Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Climate policy (in)equity: Investigating private incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act for investments in marginalized communities. Society for Social Work Research, 2026.
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T. (2026, Jan.). Investigating the welfare-to-work requirements and sanction-lifted policies following the COVID-19 pandemic through an equity lens. Society for Social Work Research, 2026.
Davidson, T., Ferreira, R., Leahy, C., Rathbun, H., Lyttle, M., Brown, C. T., & Buttell, F. (2026, Jan.). Understanding barriers to equitable disaster recovery: A concept mapping study. Society for Social Work Research, 2026
Brown, C. T. (2025, Nov.). Climate risk and the welfare state: Exploring the moderation of climate-adaptive welfare and ecowelfare on U.S. welfare enrollment after natural hazards. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2025.
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T. (2025, Nov.). Investigating the welfare-to-work requirements and sanction-lifted policies following the COVID-19 pandemic through an equity lens. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2025
Brown, C. T., (2025, Oct.). When helping hurts: Growth, adaptation, and a critique of ecowelfare. Extreme Weather Events, Climate Adaptation and Eco-social Policies Colloquium, Sustainable Welfare & Eco-social Policy Network.
Chang, Y. L., & Brown, C. T. (2025, Oct.). Leveraging Cal-OAR data insights to improve employment and earnings for Welfare-to-Work participants with an equity lens. County Welfare Directors Association of California Annual Conference.
Brown, C. T. (2025, June). Climate risk and the welfare state: Exploring the moderation of climate-adaptive welfare and ecowelfare on U.S. welfare enrollment after natural hazards. Sustainable Social Policy Workshop, London School of Economics.
Brown, C. T. (2025, June). Climate risk and the welfare state: Exploring the moderation of climate-adaptive welfare and ecowelfare on U.S. welfare enrollment after natural hazards. Social Ecological Transitions Workshop, Sciences Po.
Perone, A., Brown, C. T., Fletcher, K., Urrutia, L. (2025, June). The five C’s of climate change and caregiving: Moving from catastrophic to cohesive caregiving for older and disabled adults. Transforming Care Conference.
Brown, C. T., Nepomnyashcy, L., Patel, A. S. (2024, Nov.). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2024.
Chang, Y. L., Keh, M., Brown, C. T. (2024, Nov.). Analyzing racial disparities in welfare sanctions and employment outcomes: A study of welfare-to-work systems across California counties through the COVID-19 pandemic. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2024.
Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Fox-Dichter, S., Brown, C. T., Gassman-Pines, A., Nikolova, K., Rothwell, D. (2024, Nov). Did TANF policy changes during COVID-19 matter? An examination of TANF caseloads by race and ethnicity. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2024.
Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024, Oct.). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. Global Welfare Regime Conference at National Taiwan University.
Hetling, A., Chang, Y. L., Gassman-Pines, A., Nikolova, K., Rothwell, D., Fox-Dichter, S., Brown, C. T. (2024, May). Did TANF policy changes during COVID-19 matter? An examination of TANF caseloads by race and ethnicity. Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency.
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T. (2024, Jan.). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Society for Social Work Research 2024.
Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2023, Dec.). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. Applying Sustainability Transition Research in Social Work Tackling Major Societal Challenge of Social Inclusion. University of Jyväskylä.
Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T. (2023, Nov.). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2023.
Poster Presentations
Brown, C. T., Nepomnyashcy, L., Patel, A. S. (2025, Jan.). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs. Society for Social Work Research 2025.
Brown, C. T. (2023, May). Sustainable Social Inclusion through Eco-social Policy: Bridging Transdisciplinary Approaches to Ecomodernism and Post-growth. Sustainability Science Days 2023. University of Helsinki.
Brown, C. T. (2023, May). Natural Hazards as Temporal Opportunities for Policy Change: Reframing Disaster Recovery as a Time to Build Post-Growth Societies. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Environmental Justice and Time. University of Stirling.
Brown, C. T. (2023, April). Social Work and the U.S. Eco-Social Safety Net: Opportunities to Advance Environmental Justice. Virtual Environmental Justice and Social Work Conference. Adelphi University, New York.
Brown, C. T. (2023, Jan.). Understanding American Welfare State Retrenchment through the Lens of Public Opinion Toward Welfare Spending. Society for Social Work Research 2023. Session ID: 14107.
Brown, C. T. (2020). Does automatic voter registration increase voter turnout?: Difference-in- differences. Research Without Walls. Brown School of Social Work: Washington University in St. Louis.
Brown, C. T. (2020). How healthy is our democracy and does it really matter?: Civic health, poverty, and inequality. Research Without Walls. Brown School of Social Work: Washington University in St. Louis.
Brown, C. T., Huff, J. L., & Helpenstill, K. (2020). “I wasn’t wantin’ to go in the streets”: A case study of trauma and identity in chronic homelessness. 2021 International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry.
Panel Discussant
Social Protection for Low-Income Populations in East Asia. Association Public Policy Analysis & Management 2024.
Roundtables
Neimanas, N., Brown, C. T., Vidal, C. G., Forbes, R. (2026, Jan.). Advocacy in a policy void: Climate and environmental justice in a deregulated policy environment across governance levels. Society for Social Work Research, 2026.
Workshops
Brown, C. T., Martin, J., Pevitz, A., & Shapiro, R. (2021, June). Understanding students’ voting behaviors: How to assess political engagement moving forward. 2021 Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting.
Brown, C. T., Martin, J., Pevitz, A., & Shapiro, R. (2021, October). Assessing experiences of public safety as a catalyst for community engagement. 2021 Assessment Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_hbdrrpjy.
Pevitz, A., Brown, C. T., Martin, J., & Shapiro, R. (2021, October). Measuring equity: An inside look at creating an instrument. 2021 Assessment Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_cqhawkki.
Shapiro, R., Brown, C. T. (2021, June). Not just for voters: Including ineligible voters in the creation of a civically engaged campus climate. 2021 Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting.
Shapiro, R., Brown, C. T., Martin, J., Pevitz, A., & (2021, October). Graduate student civic engagement: A case study in data, assessment, and evaluation as problem solving tools. 2021 Assessment Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_ep1mo77u.
Webinars
Brown, C. T. (2022). Can young social workers make a difference? 2022 Student Advocacy Day, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.
Brown, C. T. (2022). Can young social workers make a difference? 2022 Social Work Day on the Hill, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.
Brown, C. T., Harris, J., Soto, J. M., Lozano, A., Jean-Louis, R., Cotlone, D., Wollen, S., & Edelman, M. (2021). Young social workers speak out on the future of democracy. 2021 Social Work Day on the Hill, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.
Soto, M., & Brown, C. T. (2021). Can social work save democracy? 2021 Student Advocacy Day, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.
Soto, M., & Brown, C. T. (2021). Can social work save democracy? 2021 Social Work Day on the Hill, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.
McClendon, G. & Brown, C. T. (2020). Local Leadership in Turbulent Times: How Ferguson Mayor Ella Jones and St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell Rose to the Challenge of Local Political Leadership.
Teaching
Supervised Instruction
University of California, Berkeley
- Fall, 2025: SOCWEL 112, Social Welfare Policy
- Spring, 2025: SOCWEL 112, Social Welfare Policy
- Spring, 2024: SOCWEL 282B, Seminar in Social Welfare Research
- Spring, 2023: SOCWEL 116, Poverty and Economic Justice
Independent Instruction
Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, Tulane University
Spring 2025
- DRLS 6110, Program Evaluation
University of California, Berkeley
Spring, 2025
- SOCWEL 110, Social Work as a Profession
Fall, 2025
- Python Fundamentals
- Python for Business Leaders
- Python for Environmental Economists
- R for Public Health
Spring, 2025
- R Fundamentals
- Python Machine Learning Fundamentals, UC Berkeley Master of Computational Social Science
- GPT Fundamentals, UC Berkeley Master of Computational Social Science
- Python Data Visualization
- Python Web APIs
- Python Web Scaping
Fall, 2024
- Python Fundamentals
- Python Data Wrangling
- Python Data Visualization
- Machine Learning in Python
Summer, 2024
- R Fundamentals, Instructor
- Python Fundamentals, Instructor
- Python Data Wrangling, Instructor
- Python Web Scraping, Instructor
Spring, 2024
- Institutional Review Board Fundamentals
Harding University
Spring, 2022
- SOC 2030-03, General Sociology
- SWK 4510-01, Seminar, Field Liaison
- SWK 4520-01, Field Placement, Field Liaison
Fall, 2021
SWK 3300-01, Social Work Research
SOC 2030-04, General Sociology
Spring, 2021
- SWK 4510-01, Seminar, Field Liaison
- SWK 4520-01, Field Placement, Field Liaison
Guest Lectures
Brown, C. T. (2025, Mar.). Ecosocial policy and social work. Social Welfare Policy, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Brown, C. T. (2024, Feb.). Observational and quasi-experimental designs in program evaluation. Seminar in Social Welfare Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Brown, C. T. (2023, Nov.). Social Work, Environmental Justice, and Ecosocial Policy. Introduction to Social Welfare Policy, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Brown, C. T. (2023, Feb. & Mar.). Statistics in Social Science Research. Community-Based Research, California State University, East Bay.
Brown, C. T. (2022, Oct.). Introduction to Data Analysis Using SPSS. Research-Informed Practice, University of the Pacific.
Brown, C. T. (2022, Mar.). Sociology of Markets, Class, and Poverty. Microeconomics. Paul R. Carter College of Business Administration, Harding University.
Brown, C. T. (2020, Nov.). How to Influence Social and Public Policy. Social Welfare Policies and Services II. Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harding University
Brown, C. T., & Brown C. S. (2021, Mar.). Social Work Careers and Education: Lessons for BSW Graduates. Community Practice. Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harding University.
Brown, C. T. (2020, Sep.). Advising Child Welfare Administrators. Transdisciplinary Problem Solving: Child Maltreatment Prevention. Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis.
Practice Experience
Professional Experience
Center for Ecosocial POlicy
- Founder & Executive Director
- 2025 - Present
CTC Technology & Energy
- Senior Policy Analyst
- 2021 - 2022
- Supervisors: Joanne Hovis, Andrew Afflerbach, Ph.D., P.E.
Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch
- Caregiver
- 2021 - 2022
- Supervisor: Supervisor: Thudd Hill, MSW, MBA
Brown Strategic Consulting
- Founder and CEO
- 2020 - Present
Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families
- Program Analyst
- 2020 - 2021
- Supervisor: Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson, LCSW
River City Ministry
- Minister
- 2017 - 2019
- Supervisor: Steven Morris, MPP
Fellowship Experience
Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee
- Congressional Intern
- 2022-2023
Missouri State Senate and House
- Legislative Aide
- 2019 - 2020
City Garden Montessori School
- Racial Equity Fellow
- 2019 - 2020
Clark Fox Institute and Social Policy Institute
- Graduate Policy Scholar
- 2019 - 2020
Arkansas Governor’s Office
- Child Policy Fellow
- 2019
Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services
- Legislative Aide
- 2019
Service & Leadership
Academic
- The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Work and Family, University of California, Berkeley (2022-2024)
- Dean Finalist Student Interview Panel, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley (2024)
Supervision
- Qi-Hao Liang, 2023-2024 Mark Chesler Award at University of Michigan Department of Sociology for “County Racial Distribution and Racial Disparities in Welfare Sanctions: Exploring Group Threat and Contact Theories in California’s TANF System”
Volunteer
- BSW Student Board Representative, National Association of Social Workers-Arkansas (2018-2019)
- Communications Director, Ella Jones’ Mayoral Task Force (2020-2022)
- Constituent Services, Dr. Sam Page’s County Executive Campaign (2020)
- Development Advisor and Child Care Worker, Sparrow’s Promise (2017-2022)
- Director of Data and Strategy, Ella Jones’ Mayoral Campaign (2019-2020)
- Field Director, Rep. Tommie Pierson’s Missouri State Senate Campaign (2020)
- Lead Organizer for Student Advocacy Day, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy, (2022)
- Leadership Team for Student Advocacy Day, Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy, (2019-2022)
- Research and Policy Advisor, Modern Widows Club (2020-2022)
Ad-hoc Editorial & Scientific Review
- Journal of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
- Stat
Honors, Fellowships, & Awards
Honors
- Honors Graduate, Harding University
- Outstanding Social Work Student 2019, Harding University
- Rhodes Scholarship Finalist 2020
Professional Membership
- Environmental Politics and Governance Mentoring Program – Mentor: Dr. Aseem Prkash & Nives Dolsak
- Randolph Mentoring Program - Mentor: Dr. Tanya Brice Smith
- Scholars Strategy Network - https://scholars.org/scholar/christopher-brown
Scholarship
- Arkansas Governor’s Distinguished Scholar
- Dean’s Scholarship in Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
- Social Welfare Departmental Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
- Trustee Scholar, Harding University
Media & Coverage
Keaggy, D. T., & Schoenherr, N. (2020, November 22). Three Washington University scholars were Rhodes finalists. The Source. https://source.wustl.edu/2020/11/three-washington- university-scholars-were-rhodes-finalists/
Poor, T. (2020, June 11). New student fellowships assess racial equity across organizations. Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School. https://brownschool.wustl.edu/News/Pages/New-Student-Fellowships-Assess-Racial- Equity-Across-Organizations.aspx
Schoenherr, N. (2021, June 2). Brown School works with Webster Groves to improve housing equity. The Source, Washington University in St. Louis, https://source.wustl.edu/2021/06/brown-school-works-with-webster-groves-to-improve-housing-equity/.
