Sylvia Brown
Leveraging her family’s 300-year philanthropic legacy and her own 35 years of experience in the charitable sector, Sylvia Brown is a passionate advocate of thoughtful and effective giving. After earning her BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Sylvia pursued a career in international development from Wall Street to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. For the past decade, she has helped donors with their giving strategies and non-profits with their sustainability, while becoming a Board Source Certified Governance Trainer. In 2015, Sylvia launched Uplifting Journeys, “boot camps for smarter donors,” and now is developing a virtual version of her experiential curriculum. In 2017, she published “Grappling With Legacy – Rhode Island’s Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse” and currently is an Encore Public Voices Fellow at the OpEd Project, writing on effective giving practices for America’s retirees.
