Meet Our Trainers

Jamarr Brown has 15 years of experience working as a campaign strategist, leadership trainer, and nonprofit leader. Jamarr serves as the Executive Director of Color of Change PAC where he works to elect decision makers who will influence policy on criminal and economic justice issues. Prior to this role, he made history as the first-ever Black executive director of the Texas Democratic Party. Jamarr has served as the Director of Civic Engagement Programs at re:power, stewarding partnerships with progressive civic engagement and labor groups and overseeing a portfolio of programs to train and support organizers, campaign managers and staff, and candidates. In a previous role as the Organizing & Training Director for Planned Parenthood Texas Votes (PPTV), Jamarr managed the statewide leadership development, public affairs, grassroots organizing and issue and electoral campaign work in conjunction with Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas. Under his leadership, the number of Planned Parenthood supporters across Texas grew by 600,000. Jamarr has worked at the local, state, and national level with a range of progressive organizations — training key groups and campaigns across the country and garnering national coverage — and successfully worked with ColorOfChange to remove the Confederate Flag from South Carolina’s State House grounds. Raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Jamarr earned a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from Clemson University. He serves as the Board Chair for Provide, Inc. and previously served on the boards for Leadership Austin and the Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce.