I am currently a UC Berkeley Labor Center affiliate researcher, and Labor-Climate Organizer with Labor Notes.
My dissertation researched the politics of climate crisis, Latinx movements, and construction labor in California's San Joaquin Valley. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the journal Human Geography, a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women & Sexuality, the Latinx & The Environment Intiative, and the Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study. For my doctoral work, I studied principally with Professors Sharad Chari, Nathan Sayre, and Leslie Salzinger (in Gender & Women's Studies).
Before starting my doctoral research, I founded and directed the climate change communication non-profit Float Map, worked at Navigant as a clean energy economics and policy consultant for public agencies and utilities, conducted ethnographic fieldwork with rural movements against wind power in northeastern Brazil, and toured as a working musician in pop and ambient groups.
EDUCATION
2010, B.S., Environmental Economics & Policy (with Honors), University of California, Berkeley
2010, B.A., Geography (with Distinction), University of California, Berkeley
2020, M.A., Geography, University of California, Berkeley
2023, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Brown, Keith Brower, Samuel Norman, Cyndee Ott, and Allysunn Williams. "Women's Equity Study: MC3 Apprenticeship Readiness Program." Fresno Workforce Development Board, March 2023. (Link)
Brown, Keith Brower. “The Poverty of Power in the US Green Keynesian Turn.” Opinion. Human Geography, January 2022. (Journal link or open access)
Brown, Keith Brower. "Filling the Good Jobs Gap: Fresno's Opportunity for a Citywide Project Labor Agreement." UC Merced Community and Labor Center, January 2021. (Link)
Brown, Keith Brower. “Samuel Stein, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.” Book review. Antipode, September 2019. (Link)
Karner, Alex, Keith Brower Brown, Richard Marcantonio, and Louis G. Alcorn. "The View From the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder: Participatory Budgeting and the Promise of Community Control." Journal of the American Planning Association 85, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 236–54. (Link)
Brown, Keith Brower. “Fulcrum, Fallow: On Tempelhofer Feld.” New Geographies, no. 10 (2019). (Link)
Brown, Keith Brower. “Wind Power in Northeastern Brazil: Local Burdens, Regional Benefits and Growing Opposition”. Climate and Development 3, no. 4 (October 1, 2011): 344–60. (Link)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Geography 138 (Global Environmental Politics), UC Berkeley, Summer 2022
Teaching Assistant, Geography 40 (Earth System Science), UC Berkeley, Spring 2022
Lecturer, Geography N4 (World Peoples & Cultural Environments), UC Berkeley, Summer 2021
Research Mentor, Latinxs & The Environment Initiative, UC Berkeley, 2020 - 2021
Lecturer, Geography N4 (World Peoples & Cultural Environments), UC Berkeley, Summer 2020
Guest Lecturer, Geography 19 (Climate Change), Laney College, Spring 2020
Guest Lecturer, Letters & Science 70B (Global Warming), UC Berkeley, Fall 2018
