Nancy Brown-Jamison, Associate

Nancy Brown-Jamison brings 38 years experience in working consciously on race, gender and sexual orientation issues in herself and in client organizations. As a white, heterosexual U.S. born woman, Nancy often finds herself in the majority and uses her majority group status to surface and challenge assumptions and patterns connected to these and other dimensions of difference.

Nancy has worked as a marketing manager and internal organization effectiveness consultant for Procter & Gamble and is currently an independent resource focused on organization design and strategic use of diversity. Clients have included Apple Computer, Corning, Cummins, Clorox, Hewlett Packard and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She has served as adjunct faculty or guest lecturer at American University, Purdue University and the University of Cincinnati.

In her work with White Men as Full Diversity Partners, Nancy enjoys challenging herself and others to continue learning and applying that learning in "real life." Through experience and reflection she continues to discover and then work to eliminate racist, sexist or heterosexist assumptions and behaviors of which she was previously unaware.

Personal/Professional Philosophy: “Your prime purpose on earth is to help one another. If you can’t help one another, at least don’t hurt one another.”   — Dalai Lama

A Favorite Book: Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith

Lessons Learned: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always.”   — Mahatma Gandhi