Kathleen Brown-Peréz , M.B.A., J.D..
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Department of Legal Studies
121 Gordon Hall, UMass/Amherst
Phone:  413-545-2647 / Fax: 413-545-1640
Email: brown-perez@comcol.umass.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Kathleen Brown-Pérez is a lecturer for the Department of Legal Studies and a Commonwealth College instructor and enrolled member of the Brothertown Indian Nation (Wisconsin), holds her B.A. from Augustana College (IL), and M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Iowa. She practiced corporate law with an emphasis on non-profit and tax-exempt organizations in Phoenix and Boston and is now primarily working with her tribe, the Brothertown Indian Nation, in the federal acknowledgement process as liaison between the tribe and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Her interests include federal Indian policy and law, literary nonfiction in social history, and the issues that arise for cross-border tribes. She is currently co-chair of the Five College Native American Indian Studies Certificate Program and was a UMass Research Literary Fellow (2006-07). Kathleen is also an attorney-editor for Westlaw and has written numerous chapters on state employment discrimination law. She is currently writing a book on Samson Occom, Mohegan minister and founder of the Brothertown Indian Nation..