David E. Brown
Executive Director, National Youth Employment Coalition
David E. Brown will be appointed on July
1, 2000, to serve as Executive Director of the National Youth Employment
Coalition (NYEC), a nonpartisan network of more than 150 youth
employment, training, and development organizations dedicated to
promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming
lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens.
Mr. Brown has served as NYEC’s deputy director since 1998,
and his responsibilities have included spearheading NYEC’s
policy and legislation work, tracking the implementation of the
youth provisions of the Workforce Investment Act, leading an effort
to connect youth employment and juvenile justice, editing NYEC’s
newsletter YouthNotes, maintaining the NYEC Web site, and
contributing to the development of the NYEC’s Promising and
Effective Practices Network (PEPNet). Previously, Mr. Brown was
a senior policy analyst with the National Governors’ Association’s
(NGA’s) Center for Best Practices. During his 6-year tenure
at NGA, he focused on youth-related State policy issues, including
youth development, school-to-work, employment and training, national
and community service, young noncustodial fathers, and juvenile
justice. Mr. Brown was also the managing editor of NGA’s Workforce
Investment Quarterly and provided staff support to the National
Association of State Workforce Board Chairs. In the early 1980’s,
Mr. Brown administered federally funded youth employment programs
in Peekskill, NY, and later launched and coordinated two education/work
experience projects that served economically and educationally
disadvantaged out-of-school youth in New York City. Subsequently,
Mr. Brown worked in the juvenile justice systems of the State of
Maryland and the District of Columbia. His interest in youth programs
and policy began during an internship with a county youth bureau.
Mr. Brown received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science
and Urban Affairs from The American University and, in 1989, earned
a master’s degree in Public Administration from Baruch College,
which he attended as a National Urban Fellow.
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