Brittany Brown

Brittany Brown is the division chief of fire prevention at the Leawood, KS, Fire Department. She previously served as a division chief for the South Adams County Fire Department in Commerce City, CO, as state fire marshal for New Mexico and Texas, and as a fire marshal and firefighter in Kentucky, New Mexico and Texas. Brown also worked as a professor at Eastern Kentucky University and currently teaches for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the National Fire Academy. She previously taught at the New Mexico Firefighters Training Academy. Brown is pursuing a Ph.D. in forensics from Oklahoma State University and holds a master’s degree in systems engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She serves as an SME/committee member for the NFPA, International Code Council, National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies, Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science, and International Fire Service Training Association.