Jen Brown is cofounder & codirector of the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities at Northwestern University and is passionate about its work to grow and support authentic community-academic research partnerships that honor, are driven by, and share power with communities to improve health and equity. She has over two decades of experience building and supporting community, patient and stakeholder engagement in research at project, institutional and multi-institutional levels through infrastructure development, partnership brokering, capacity building, seed grants and advocacy. She serves as chair of PCORI’s Patient Engagement Advisory Panel.