Tristin Brown serves as the Foundation’s Advocacy Manager. In this role, she shapes and executes the Foundation’s policy and advocacy plan, initiatives and strategies pertaining to systems change and health equity.

Before joining the team, Tristin served as Policy & Advocacy Director at the National Black Worker Center. Her other previous roles include Policy & Program Director at the People’s Parity Project and Associate Counsel at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. She first joined the Committee as the Small, Webber, Spencer Litigation Fellow through the Georgetown Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program.

Tristin earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and graduated summa cum laude from Florida A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in public relations. During law school, she held several leadership and service roles—including President of the Black Law Students Association, Public Interest Fellow, Student Ambassador, and Online Editor and Special Projects Chair of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives. She also represented clients in D.C. Superior Court as a student attorney in the Domestic Violence Clinic and was honored as both a Pro Bono Pledge Honoree and Dean’s Certificate recipient. Her peers elected her to serve as their commencement speaker.

Her legal and policy experience includes externships with the Federal Election Commission, the Advancement Project, and Perkins Coie LLP’s former Political Law Group. Before law school, Tristin worked as a staffer for former U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Graham and interned with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Tristin’s writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, The American Prospect, The Grio, and Bloomberg Law. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at Florida State University College of Law. She currently serves on the boards of the Peer Defense Project and Ms. JD, and is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In her free time, she enjoys movie marathons with her partner, Berry, and long walks with their dogs, Whiskey and Finn.