The James City, NC native received as BS in Biology and Pre-Med from Livingstone College, a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from the University of Missouri. Dr. Allen-Brown is an ordained clergy in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at the United Methodist Church, having pastored churches in New Jersey, Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio. Her research interests are in oral history, religion/theology, and human rights; however, her passion is traveling abroad with UC students all over the globe. Students have accompanied her to many different countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Morocco, Ethiopia, France, and Ghana