Brytanee Brown
Transportation Planner
City of Oakland
Brytanee Brown is an urban planner, food policy development expert, and environmental justice specialist who is passionate about creating communities that provide access to fresh, affordable, sustainable and culturally relevant food for all of its residents. Her most recent work leverages community and economic development by addressing the need for quality food in low-income neighborhoods looking closely at grocery stores owned by African Americans in neighborhoods that have received federal and local funding in support of healthy food access.
Brytanee has worked as a graduate student planner in collaboration with the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at MIT, Ernst Valery Investments, and LAMB, Inc. to develop a social impact strategies model for a healthy corner store in East Baltimore. She has also worked as a legal intern for transportation equity/education/affordable housing non-profit law firm Public Advocates, a teaching intern at Aim High, and as a researcher at UC-Berkeley. During her last year at UC-Berkeley, she traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to collaborate with University of Nairobi students, Muungano Support Trust, Slum Dwellers International, and Mathare Valley residents around plans that: avoided widespread displacement; outlined a strategy for granting land tenure to slum residents, and drafted strategies for upgrading sanitary infrastructure, roads and other basic services.
Brytanee holds a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from Tufts University and a Bachelor’s of Arts in African American Studies and a minor in City & Regional Planning from University of California - Berkeley. Before her work in the field of urban planning she worked as an Outreach Coordinator at UC Berkeley’s Black Retention and Recruitment Center and lead college tours for high school and middle school students throughout California. She is a voracious reader, cyclist, music connoisseur, yogi, and city dweller. Brytanee is originally from Berkeley, California.