Lori Lipman Brown
Director, Secular Coalition for America

Lori Lipman Brown served as Nevada State Senator from 1992 to 1994. Her legislative efforts focused on public education, mental health care and the repeal of consensual sex crimes, which 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 taught constitutional law, American history, and education law for the University of Phoenix, and women's studies for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Brown was also a high school English, speech and drama teacher in the Clark County school district.

She obtained her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in 1983, and her B.A. in communications from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1981.

She has facilitated or presented at numerous events and served as a National Education Association diversity trainer from 1996 to 2000.

Brown was hired by the Secular Coalition for America in September, 2005. She directs the coalition's activities and lobbies members of Congress on issues arising out of the inappropriate incursion of religion into civil law. She also addresses the interests and concerns of America's atheists, freethinkers, humanists, and other nontheists through media appearances and speaking engagements.