Karen Brown
Karen Brown, PhD
Co-Lead of UMN Sustainable Development Initiative
UMN Sustainable Development Initiative

Karen is director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), a campus-wide center focused on global social justice and a unit of the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance at the University of Minnesota. She creates, directs, and teaches in interdisciplinary and global programs and partnerships, including fellowship programs to support graduate students, a master's program in international development (Master of Development Practice) with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and a graduate minor in Development Studies and Social Change. Dr. Brown holds a PhD in Political Science and MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota and a BS in Chinese from Georgetown University. Her academic interests focus on gender and global policy, children and international politics, and interdisciplinarity.