The Rev. Dr. Brown Campbell is lecturer, author and Emeritus Director of Religious Life for Chautauqua Institution in New York. She is an ordained minister in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church.

In every job she has held, she was the first woman to carry that responsibility. She was the first woman to be Associate Executive Director of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches; the first woman to be Executive Director of the U.S. Office of the World Council of Churches; the first ordained woman to be General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; and she was the first woman Director of Religious Life at Chautauqua Institution.