Former Fellow, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rachel Brown is a dynamic force who speaks to the power of communication—how it can divide and how it can unite. For the past decade, she has focused on using communication to prevent violent conflict. After her 2014 fellowship with the Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center, Rachel authored
Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech. She previously founded and ran Sisi ni Amani-Kenya (SNA-K), a Kenyan NGO that pioneered new strategies to build local capacity for peacebuilding and civic engagement
Rachel is the founder and executive director of Over Zero, a non-profit organization that emerged out of the work of SNA-K. Over Zero partners with community leaders, civil society, and researchers to use the power of communication to prevent and rise above identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm. Programming is focused on the United States, central Europe, and east Africa, as well as engagement with the wider atrocity prevention field. In May 2020, the organization produced