Jared J. Brown (JJ) was born in 1966 to a Foreign Service officer and spent his childhood at foreign posts. He has 7 children and five granddaughters. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master of Arts in Public Policy at Brigham Young University and has completed a semester at the Naval War College.

For nearly 20 years, JJ was Senator Orrin G. Hatch’s energy, agriculture, and environment advisor in Washington, DC. In that time, he drafted more than 100 bills and ushered dozens of them into law for the senator. In the process, he worked with at least seven Senate Committees and their House counterparts.

JJ has a depth of experience at every level of the Congressional process, including staffing the Chairman for committee hearings and markups, maneuvering bills and amendments through floor consideration, and actively negotiating details of major proposals at the Conference Committee stage. He also helped to promote policy approaches with the Executive Branch, including meetings at the White House and in the West Wing.

JJ taught as a part-time adjunct professor at the George Washington University Political Management Graduate Program and at Southern Virginia University. He has been asked to lecture at various conferences on the subject around the United States and overseas, including conferences in Mexico City, Monaco, Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale, Phoenix, Golden, and a variety of conferences in Utah and Washington, DC, often receiving repeat invitations.