Audrey Brown
TITLE : Director of Public Education
COMPANY : Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency
Overseeing an effort to educate the public about organ and tissue donation is challenging and rewarding. I’m fortunate to manage a team of enthusiastic and articulate professionals who understand the importance and profound impact of organ and tissue donation. We develop public education campaigns, which most recently are designed to dispel some of the myths surrounding donation which could prevent Arkansans from registering to become a donor. But our greatest exponents of the registration message are donor families and recipients.
Why I Love This
It really is important to me to affect others in a good and meaningful way. But I also enjoy using the skills in my work that I’ve developed throughout my career as a nonprofit professional and journalist. I am so fortunate to be able to do both at ARORA.
Best business advice you ever received and who gave it: My dad has been a tremendous influence on me philosophically. He has always told me that life is not just what you make it, or work for it to be—but what you expect it to be. That’s advice that I carry into the workplace. Who consistently inspires you? My husband, Wesley, is my catalyst. What business men and women do you admire the most? My sister, Brigette Williams, is a public relations dynamo.
Favorite Workplace Expression: “What can we do to increase donor registration?”
Wardrobe: I’m not very tall, so I have to be careful about clothes that overwhelm me. I love tailored, hip-length cardigans and coordinating shells, or very feminine blouses in bright colors or patterns worn as jackets over a tank or shell with slacks or skirts (usually black) with heels. I like to look “put together” because I’m often out and about representing ARORA. But our workplace is fairly casual so I don’t want to look too “dressed up.”
How will you know when you are successful? I do strive to be a person of value to others, so I equate that with success. Successes can be small and personal and still be significant.
Favorite Quote: “Instead of stressing over things I ask myself, ‘will this matter a year from now?’”