PUZZLE Mania

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During his tenure, Brown tackled questions such as “how do we continue running secure elections?” and how to establish “legitimacy” in the Student Union by ensuring that “there is a secure…and accurate pipeline between the student body and what people in Student Union are doing.”

Brown believes civic engagement is pivotal to creating change in a community. “Because of the online world that we live in, we’ve lost a little bit of the ability to have conversations and to think critically,” he said, emphasizing how important it is to consider how we might progress in the future. “What are the systems that you can use to create change in a way that’s productive? And how do you hear what other people have to say… while disagreeing with ideas and not people?”

Following his graduation, Brown will be returning to campus and the Gephardt Institute to serve as the Civic Engagement Manager. Thinking about the kind of impact he hopes to drive in the future, Brown emphasized the importance of his work in higher education. “We, as an institution, have an obligation [to be informed],” he said.

Brown expressed his hopes for the University community as a whole shooting for the moon. “I would love for WashU to be the most civically engaged campus in the country,” he said