Raven e Brown

About Raven e Brown

Raven E. Brown is a political economist and policy scientist. Brown is a recipient of a doctoral degree from the Ph.D. Program in Public and Urban Policy at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at The New School. Neoliberalism, the Right to Housing and the Evolution of the Welfare State in Post-Apartheid South Africa, her dissertation, examines the negotiations that ended apartheid and left the economic and political arrangments that have reproduced sociostructural patterns of poverty and inequality in place. It also explores the politics of redistribution by examining intra-urban inequality in Cape Town and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. It provides an in-depth review of South Africa\'s transition to democracy, housing policies, and institutional reform strategies. She unpacks the effects of almost 50 years of neoliberal policies on the global political economy, writ large, and on conceptions of the welfare state more specifically.With over 18 years of field experience in development and global health, she has worked in Argentina, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, Mozambique, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia and conducted programmatic interventions and research related to Angola, Belize, Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Career highlights have focused on cities, gender, HIV and the care economy, participatory development, political transitions, and qualitative research design. Brown researches American politics, climate change, comparative politics and changing global alliances, cities and migration, structural inequality and neoliberalism, democracy and the welfare state, the role of the state, and the social contract. Brown is a recipient of the 20••••24 Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University\'s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. As a Provost Fellow, she teaches and researches cities, inequality, climate change, migration and critical infrastructure, changing global alliances, the role of the state, and the evolution of the social contract. She has an MA in International Affairs from The New School and an MPH in Global Public Health from New York University. Brown is a Democratic County Committee member in New York\'s 69th Assembly District, a Board Member at Large of Three Parks Independent Democrats, a native New Yorker, and a fan of the Oxford comma.

Experience

1. Visiting Professor

   School For International Training

   Nov 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Synchronous and Asynchronous Intensive Course: The Political Economy of Sustainable Development and Environmental Change.

Education

• New York University

  Master of Public Health - MPH, Global Health

• PPAS

  High School Diploma, Theater and Lighting Design

  1992 — 1998

• Bennington College

  Bachelor's degree, Anthropology

• The New School

  Master's degree, International Relations and Affairs

• The New School

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Public and Urban Policy

  2014