Lori Brown

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Lori Lipman Brown (17 June 1958 - )

Brown grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, New York; was a politician, attorney, educator, and activist in Nevada; and became the Secular Coalition for America's Director (and first paid staff member) in Washington, DC on September 19, 2005.

She served as Nevada State Senator from 1992 to 1994. Her legislative record in the arenas of public education, mental health care, and the repeal of consensual sex crimes resulted in her being named Civil Libertarian of the Year by the Southern Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Legislator of the Year by the Nevada chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Brown has been a frequent political commentator on television and radio and a regular columnist in a variety of print media. A former private practice lawyer, she also served on the faculty of the University of Phoenix, where she taught constitutional law, American history and education law. Brown taught women's studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a part time instructor. She has also taught middle school and high school English and speech and drama in the Clark County School System in Las Vegas.

Brown has facilitated or presented at numerous events, including conferences of the American Humanist Association, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. She also served on the National Education Association's diversity cadre as a trainer from 1996 to 2000.

Her father, Mel Lipman, heads the American Humanist Association.