Alicia Brown
Alicia Brown is a Solution Architect at King County, Washington where she partners with agencies to provide data, information, and decision-making tools to support their programming decisions that serve 2.3M residents. Her mission to democratize data and technology began in 2015, when she joined a technology start-up in Seattle and consulted with governmental agencies to help their organizations become more data-driven and transparent by publishing open data and performance dashboards.
Alicia’s professional experiences sparked her research interest to learn what factors drive successful data initiatives for communities. She is interested in learning how local governments select measures and collaborate with the community to define and prioritize goals. She seeks to understand how organizations navigate ethical issues of citizen privacy, data sovereignty, and technology transparency to inform her work and her peers in the public sector.
Alicia serves on the Equity and Social Justice Committee for King County’s Information Technology department, leading the Data and Reporting Strategies team. One of the ongoing programs that she supports, Digital Equity through Affordable Internet, was recognized by King County’s Strategic Advisory Council with the Connected Communities award for the enrollment of 45K+ residents in the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Alicia graduated from Texas A&M University in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. In 2000 she received her MBA from Texas Christian University. She continues to study ways to communicate data effectively with open-source software and deliver people-centered solutions using agile and design thinking methodologies.
