Lisa Brown, '86: Joins the CLASP Board of Trustees for 2017

The board of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has welcomed four new trustees for 2017: Lisa Brown, Thomas Kahn, Sunil Mansukhani, and Edward Montgomery.

“These four leaders bring to CLASP decades of high-level experience in the executive branch, the Congress, academia, and the nonprofit world. In the challenging days ahead, their extensive knowledge of how federal policymaking works will be of vital assistance to CLASP staff and to CLASP board members throughout the county,” said Joe Onek, chair of CLASP’s board of trustees.

Lisa Brown joined Georgetown University in March 2013 as vice president and general counsel following distinguished service in the Obama Administration as assistant to the president and staff secretary in the White House, as well as acting chief performance officer at the Office of Management and Budget. She also held positions in the Clinton Administration, serving as counsel to Vice President Gore, as an executive board member on the President’s Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities, and as an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Outside of government, Ms. Brown was executive director of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy for six years and was a partner at the Shea & Gardner law firm. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in political economy and earned her law degree (with honors) from the University of Chicago Law School.