CDF-Texas Staff

Brandi Brown
Texas Youth Leadership Development Director

Brandi Brown is CDF-Texas' Youth Leadership Development Director and manages the oversight and expansion of the CDF Freedom Schools^® in the Texas area.

She began working with CDF as the coordinator of the Katrina Citizens Leadership Corps where she engaged people affected by Hurricane Katrina in advocacy around recovery.

Brandi has a long history of partnering with CDF. She began working with the Dallas CDF Freedom Schools as an intern while attending Southern Methodist University in 1997, and later as a site coordinator. In her role as an Ella Baker Trainer, Brandi started Houston's first CDF Freedom Schools in the summer of 1999. Brandi is the co-founder and director of Waymaker Life Strategies, Inc., the sponsoring organization of Houston’s Youth Program for Enrichment (H.Y.P.E.) CDF Freedom Schools

Her background also consists of serving as a coordinator for teen parents for eight years in the Houston Independent School District as well as serving as a co-owner of a Smoothie King Franchise with her husband.

Brandi Brown is a proud graduate of Southern Methodist University with a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling from Prairie View A&M University. She and her husband are the guardians of their 13 year old nephew.