Clark County Public Health’s new racial equity director ‘willing to fight for racial equity, for justice’

Shanell Brown, a public health nurse and Tacoma native, joined Clark County Public Health as its first racial equity director in May.

“Clark County Public Health was a place that expressed readiness to move from acknowledgement of inequities to actually taking action to address them,” Brown said. “That’s the exact kind of environment where I do my best work. I really want to help build the infrastructure and support that makes equity durable rather than dependent on just one sole person or moment.”