Michael Brown

1991

Michael Brown

http://www.cityyear.org

Education & Youth Leadership

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A 1991 Echoing Green Fellow, Michael Brown is the co-founder and president of City Year, a national youth service corps that helped to inspire the development of AmeriCorps, the nation's federal investment in national youth service. Before founding City Year with his college roommate, Alan Khazei, Michael served as a legislative aide for then Congressman Leon Panetta; a public information officer for the City Volunteer Corps (CVC) of New York City; and law clerk for Federal Judge Stephen Breyer, now a Supreme Court Justice. Michael Brown has been awarded the Reebok Human Rights Award, the Jefferson Award of the American Institute for Public Service, the National Caring Award, the Boston Bar Association's Public Service Award, and four honorary degrees, including doctor of public service from Northeastern University. Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Law Review.