
Tiera Brown
Gault Fellow
(she, her)
Tiera Brown is the 2022-2024 Gault Fellow at The Gault Center. Prior to joining the Gault Center, Tiera worked at the Colorado State Public Defenders Office, assisting with the defense of youth with felony and misdemeanor cases, and at the Colorado Juvenile Defender Center, where she represented young people in their expungement and deregistration hearings through CJDC’s Believe in Youth program and worked on legislative policy efforts related to youth restitution, fines, and fees.
Tiera serves on the Coalition for Minority Youth Equity, which aims to address racial and ethnic disparities in the youth justice system; she is a founding board member of BSWC LCA, an organization providing on-the-ground support and resources to sex workers and victims of trafficking; and she is a volunteer for LYRIC, Learn Your Rights in the Community, an organization composed of passionate attorney volunteers donating their time to empower Colorado youth to exercise their constitutional rights.
Tiera graduated from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, where she was a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic, and from Boston College.
Tiera lives in Denver, Colorado with her son and their growing collection of over 50 houseplants.

Tiera Brown
Gault Fellow
(she, her)
Tiera Brown is the 2022-2024 Gault Fellow at The Gault Center. Prior to joining the Gault Center, Tiera worked at the Colorado State Public Defenders Office, assisting with the defense of youth with felony and misdemeanor cases, and at the Colorado Juvenile Defender Center, where she represented young people in their expungement and deregistration hearings through CJDC’s Believe in Youth program and worked on legislative policy efforts related to youth restitution, fines, and fees.
Tiera serves on the Coalition for Minority Youth Equity, which aims to address racial and ethnic disparities in the youth justice system; she is a founding board member of BSWC LCA, an organization providing on-the-ground support and resources to sex workers and victims of trafficking; and she is a volunteer for LYRIC, Learn Your Rights in the Community, an organization composed of passionate attorney volunteers donating their time to empower Colorado youth to exercise their constitutional rights.
Tiera graduated from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, where she was a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic, and from Boston College.
Tiera lives in Denver, Colorado with her son and their growing collection of over 50 houseplants.