Alana C. Brown

Alana C. Brown is an award-winning attorney who has been fighting injustice for black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence for the last ten years. Her expertise in the law has helped create a pathway for black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence to receive free legal aid services to help facilitate their healing journey.

In 2018 to further this mission, Ms. Brown started The Safe Sisters Circle to provide culturally specific, trauma informed, and holistic services for black women survivors of sexual and domestic violence living primarily in Washington DC’s Wards 7 and 8. Ms. Brown currently serves as its Founder and Executive Director.

Most recently, Ms. Brown as selected as a “2022 Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian Magazine, a distinction held by community “heroes” in the Washington DC community for her work and its impact with Black women survivors in Washington DC as the Founder and Executive director of The Safe Sisters Circle.

In 2022, Ms. Brown received the National Bar Association’s Top 40 Under 40 Advocates Award for herwork with The Safe Sisters Circle and its influence on the Washington, DC legal community and her fearless advocacy for her clients.

Ms. Brown’s work has been recognized by the larger Washington, DC community in which she received the 2020 Tip the Scales Justice award presented by DVLEAP for making an unique impact in the gender based violence field in Washington, DC.

Additionally, Ms. Brown has spoken locally, and nationally to various media outlets including the Washington Post regarding the systemic issues that black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence experience as well as published articles regarding her expertise through working with Black women survivors of domestic and sexual violence, reproductive justice, and about her experience as a
Black women Executive Director and attorney in the domestic and sexual violence field.

Ms. Brown received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Africana Studies from New York University, and her Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center.