Dana Brown is the Deputy Director of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative.She joined the Democracy Collaborative in 2015 for the launch of the Next System Teach-Ins drawing on her experience with the Democracy Teach-Ins of the 90s and similar efforts related to the peace and social justice movements she has participated in for the last two decades. She is a human rights activist and popular educator who has worked throughout the US, Latin America and the Middle East supporting communities organized in resistance to neoliberal economic reforms, imperialism and structural violence.