Valerie

Certified Tutor

V. Ann Brown holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in public administration from the City University of New York (CUNY) John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is also ABD for a Ph.D. in criminal justice. Ms. Brown began her career at the NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) where she conducted criminal investigations into drugs and sex crimes. She emerged as the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the NYC Department of Probation and the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice. As the DIG, Ms. Brown managed staff on criminal investigations into drugs, sex crimes, fraud, corruption, and mismanagement.

As a DOI-DIG, Ms. Brown performed highly sensitive investigations, on behalf of the Mayor's Office, into allegations involving elected officials. Recurringly, she represented DOI holding anti-corruption lectures for newly hired officers on whistle-blowers laws, bribery, accepting gratuities, and official misconduct. As a result of her dedication to ethics in law, V. Ann Brown was awarded the NYC Sheldon Oliensis Mayoral Award for high ethical standards in City Government.

Ms. Brown began teaching public administration in 2003, at the College of New Rochelle in Brooklyn, NY. She also taught instructor-led courses in criminal justice for more than ten years combined at GA Piedmont Technical College and GA State University. In 2009, Ms. Brown became a GA P.O.S.T. Police Instructor charged with teaching law enforcement officers throughout the State of GA. In the same year, she implemented an accelerated associate degree program in criminal justice for law enforcement officers. Subsequently, more than thirty law enforcement officers in DeKalb County, GA completed the associate degree program. The front-runners in the program pursued other advanced degrees, succeeding in the department to Major, Assistant Chief, and Police Chief.

In 2016, Ms. Brown created the Correction Officer Specialist TCC for the Technical College System of Georgia. She saw an opportunity to offer theoretical practices to line staff at both juvenile and adult facilities while not requiring them to pursue full-time programs. In 2017, Affordable Colleges.com ranked Ms. Brown's online associate degree criminal justice program #7in the United States. The Affordable Colleges' score criteria cover loan default rates, graduation rates, and financial aid data to identify online programs in the U.S. with the best future value. Data Sources: US Department of Education.

Presently, Ms. Brown operates her own company, Justice Management Group, LLC Atlanta, GA. The Justice Management Group, LLC is a highly qualified team of investigators, that collectively lead in the nation, performing sensitive investigations, executing advanced training, and consulting with corporations as well as the United States Government.