Rebecca Dosch Brown serves as The University of Minnesota Institute on Community Intrgration Interdiscipilinary Education Director and as Family Faculty for MNLEND. She served as the MNLEND Program Director and chief author of the MNLEND grant renewal and federal reports from 2015-2022. Her foucs areas are youth disability policy, anti-ableism, disability history, societal inclusion, culturally-responsive education, disability rights, and community and interdiscpilinary education anf training. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Policy, where she is focusing on youth policy at the intersection of race and disability.