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Director of Race Equity Assessment, Building Movement Project
Mercedes Brown is the Director of Race Equity Assessment at the Building Movement Project, where she is charged with launching and bringing to scale BMP’s new organizational race equity assessment process to better equip the nonprofit sector with the foundational capacities needed to build more racially equitable workplaces. Mercedes brings deep expertise in public policy, data analytics, and equitable cross-systems transformation through nearly 17 years of experience in the social services sector. Throughout her career in government and the nonprofit sector, she has always led with her passion for advancing social and racial justice through complex systems change. She previously served as Michigan Director at the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH).
Mercedes holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan, where she currently works as a part-time lecturer teaching policy and community organizing courses; she also holds a Juris Doctor from Western Michigan University.