Ms. Brown has represented corporate clients in connection with over $70 billion of corporate transactions (including the then largest oil & gas merger in US history). She was named as one of the 2011 "40 under 40" business professionals in Crain's New York Business and the National Organization for Women recognized her as a "Woman of Power and Influence" in June 2011. Ms. Brown is also one of 30 Americans chosen to participate in the Atlantik-Bruecke American-German Young Leaders Conference, and has been recognized as a 2011 Super Lawyer Rising Star in New York (a distinction awarded to less than 2.5% of the practicing lawyers in New York). Ms. Brown has also advised general counsel and other senior management officials of Fortune 100 companies with respect to corporate governance matters and special situations. Ms. Brown's pro bono practice has included involvement with economic development initiatives assisting women in war-torn regions, advocacy on behalf of human trafficking victims, representation of immigrant women in connection with Violence Against Women Act petitions, advising a group of NGOs with respect to submitting a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee regarding the ongoing exclusion of indigenous people from the constitutional drafting process in Nepal, drafting a shadow report on the treatment of women in Cambodia in connection with CEDAW requirements, and work with the New York City public schools.

Ms. Brown was an informal national security advisor to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, where she focused in particular on human rights and international institutions, and has advised several other senior elected officials and their staffs on transportation policy and foreign economic policy. In 2005, the U.S. Army and Fifth Division, Iraqi Army honored Ms. Brown for outstanding pro bono support of a military operation that resulted in securing emergency medical care in the U.S. for a young Iraqi civilian. In 2006, Ms. Brown served as a member of Governor Eliot Spitzer's Transition Team as a member of his Transportation Policy Advisory Committee. In 2010, Ms. Brown served as a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Transition Team, again as a member of his Transportation Policy Advisory Committee.

Ms. Brown is a Trustee of Barnard College, Columbia University, and serves on several other charitable and civic boards including the Young New Yorker Patrons for the New York Philharmonic (of which she is a founding member). Ms. Brown is a non-Board member of the Education Committee of the New York Philharmonic Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ms. Brown graduated with honors from Barnard College, where she studied political science, economics and history, and from Columbia Law School, where she earned her Juris Doctorate. She also attended the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, where she studied international economic policy.