Steven Brown is the Director of Insights and Evidence for the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program. His work focuses on understanding the structural factors that impact wealth building and inclusive economic opportunity. At Aspen, he has led efforts to identify and narrow the gap between the wealth people have and the wealth people need.
His professional work has focused on understanding the structural factors that impact wealth building and inclusive economic opportunity. At Aspen, he has led efforts to better understand access to wealth building. Prior to Aspen, he was a director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He also spent several years at the Urban Institute, where he helped lead the development of a new research unit and authored numerous briefs and reports on racial wealth gaps, economic mobility metrics, and advancing equity through data. His research and perspective have been cited in The Washington Post, CNN, Marketplace, NPR, and The New York Times.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in sociology from Harvard University, where he was also an inequality and social policy doctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
