Rebecca Dosch Brown

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• Director of Interdisciplinary Education

Email

dosch018@umn.edu

Phone

+1 612-301-3438

Address

Institute On Community Integration
Masonic Inst For The Developing Brain [map]
Annex 2-512a
2025 E River Pkwy
Minneapolis, MN 55414-3604

Rebecca Dosch Brown, PhD, is Director of Interdisciplinary Education and Director of Community Engagement at the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration (ICI).

As Director of Interdisciplinary Education, she designs and directs two large training programs: the Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (MNLEND) program and the Disability Policy and Services (DPS) Certificate program . She oversees curriculum design, grant reporting, and quality improvement for both programs. She teaches the core course (EPSY 5666) for the DPS certificate, advises certificate students, and mentors MNLEND trainees engaged in community-based projects. She serves as MNLEND's core family faculty.

As Director of Community Engagement, she chairs ICI's Community Advisory Council and works with ICI researchers to strengthen community-connected research across the institute.

Dosch Brown joined ICI in 2015, following more than 20 years of experience in higher education in the United States and Japan. She contributes to grant development, internal and external training, and community-building initiatives, and serves on the ICI Art For All committee, which promotes the work of artists with disabilities to create more beautiful and inclusive communities. She has served as co-PI on equity-focused grants, including Project SCOPE, which supported children and families affected by prenatal opioid and substance exposure.

Her PhD dissertation from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs examined foster youth residential treatment policy through intersectional lenses of race, class, and disability, using historical-sociological qualitative and archival methods. Her broader commitments extend beyond the university: She is a behind-the-scenes supporter of her adult autistic son and an active advocate within disability communities. Her goal is transformative community-based research and training built in genuine partnership with those most underheard and underestimated.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)