Brené Brown
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Brown at the 2025 South by Southwest festival | |
| Born | Casandra Brown San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
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| Thesis | Acompañar: A Grounded Theory of Developing, Maintaining and Assessing Relevance in Professional Helping (2002) |
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| Discipline | Social work |
| Institutions | University of Houston |
| Website | brenebrown |
Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk. She has written six number-one New York Times bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify.
She appears in the 2019 documentary Brené Brown: The Call to Courage on Netflix. In 2022, HBO Max released a documentary series based on her book Atlas of the Heart.