Alumni
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Consuella Brown serves as the Acting President of the Woods Fund of Chicago and is ultimately responsible for Woods Fund grants to community organizing initiatives and groups. Prior to Woods, Brown was a Program Officer at the Grand Victoria Foundation where she designed a $2.7 million workforce development initiative.
Brown helped form the Workforce Development Funders Group and served on the board of Chicago Women in Philanthropy. She has been the co-chair of the Chicago-area Affordable Housing Funders Group, Grantmakers Concerned with Poverty, and Funders for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Issues. She is the recipient of the United Africa Organization’s 2010 Nelson Mandela Award for Social Justice.
Consuella Brown served with Peace Corps, first as a volunteer in the Marshall Islands and Lesotho and then as a staff member in Swaziland and the Gambia. As an Associate Director for Administration, she helped establish the first Peace Corps program in the Republic of Zambia. In the late 1990s, Brown completed her time with the Peace Corps and joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs as the Country Director in Malawi. Brown came to Illinois State University as a Peace Corps Fellow in the Department of Politics and Government. Her professional practice was with the Chicago Housing Authority.
A native of Los Angeles, Consuella received a bachelor’s degree in legal studies/women’s studies from Scripps College.
