Original storyteller born in Southwest, Nebraska. Brown, a retired professor of Human Geography at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is the president of Missouri Storytelling (MO-TELL), co-founder of the Columbia-based Mid-Missouri Organization for Storytelling (MOST), a member of the River and Prairie Storyweavers (RAPS), a former board member of the National Storytelling Network (NSN) and past president of the Storytelling in Higher Education special interest group of the NSN.