VJ Brown
Community Impact Officer
VJ Brown joined Rose Community Foundation in July 2023 as a community impact officer. VJ has spent his career as a leadership development practitioner and coach supporting a diverse array of leaders looking build their capacity to impact their communities. He previously worked as a program manager and alumni and partnerships manager for Moonshot edVentures, an organization that works to cultivate a community of BIPOC and historically marginalized leaders to launch, improve and sustain schools and programs designed to center and meet the needs of students on the margins. Prior to Moonshot, he served as a program manager at the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation focused on the Impact Denver civic leadership development program, diversity and inclusion initiatives, a scholarship program and evaluation metrics for foundation programming. He began his career as an El Pomar Foundation fellow focused on supporting the foundation’s community outreach programs. VJ holds a BA from Davidson College in Africana Studies with a minor in Anthropology. VJ is a graduate of several leadership programs, including the Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado Connect Fellowship and Colorado Civic DNA Fellows program. He currently serves on the boards of Colorado Academy and Civic Canopy and has served on grantmaking committees for Colorado Department of Education, AJL Foundation and the Chinook Fund.