Educator and feminist activist. A graduate of Parsons College, Iowa, with graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rice University, and the University of Houston at Clear Lake, where she also served as Counselor/Coordinator of Women's Resource Services. She was elected to two terms of the Clear Creek Basin Authority (an agency to combat pollution), state president of the American Association of University Women, and belonged to many other organizations regarding women's rights. Brown was defeated in a 1996 election (District 7) and smear campaign for the State Board of Education.
Originally formed as the Texas Gay Task Force, the TGLTF was the first statewide gay/lesbian organization in Texas. Organized in 1973 for the purpose of planning annual conferences (until 1990), the TGLTF served as the parent organization for the Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas and the Lesbian/Gay Rights Advocates.
