Company Name: ANISE, Inc.

Books:

Survival Skills for the African American Woman
Baby Boomer's Handbook for Women
Raising African American Boys
The Power of Change! Reinventing Yourself at Any Age (2011)

Anise Key Brown brings more than 20 years of professional experience in human development, transformation and community empowerment. She possesses a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and has received two Master Degrees; one from the State University of New York at Albany and the other from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has pursued post-graduate studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and has obtained certifications in Management from the American Management Association. She has also studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a certified ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) instructor and an Adult Literacy Tutor.She has received certification as a Life Coach from the Empowerment Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

Mrs. Brown has worked for the Los Angeles Department of Human Services and tenured as an Assistant Professor for a private University in North Carolina. Her most recent experiences include program development work for an international women's organization in Washington, D.C. where she lobbied on Capitol Hill for issues related to the well-being and empowerment of women from a global perspective. She is the founder of ANISE, Inc. (Anise Newton Institute for Self Empowerment) which is an organization designed to help women realize their full potential in life. She currently serves as the Director of a local government agency in Silver Spring, Maryland.

As a civic activist, Mrs. Brown has held memberships and leadership positions in a number of organizations including the local chapter of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the National Political Congress of Black Women, the National Association of Female Executives and Women in Public Policy among others.

Considering herself to be a world traveler, Mrs. Brown's most recent ventures include an excursion to the People's Republic of China and a journey to the country of South Africa. Mrs. Brown currently resides in the suburbs of Maryland with her husband of 25 years, who is a local attorney. She is also the mother of two college aged sons.