frequently at colleges and universities in the US. Since 1995, she has lectured at more than forty colleges and universities, as well as numerous conferences. 2007 Green Party role In March 2007, Brown announced her bid to be the 2008 Green Party presidential nominee. Brown felt that a campaign was necessary to promote the interests of those not represented by the major political parties, especially the interests of women under 30 and African Americans. Her platform focused on the needs of working-class families, promoting living wages for all, free health care, more funding for public education, more affordable housing, removal of troops from Iraq, improving the environment, and promoting equality. Brown intended on using her campaign to bring many minorities to the Green Party in the hope that it would better represent a revolutionary force for social justice. In late 2007, she resigned from the Green Party, as she found that the Party remained dominated by whites who had “no intention of using the ballot to actualize real social progress, and will aggressively repel attempts to do so.” In 2010, inmates in more than seven Georgia prisons used contraband cellphones to organize a nonviolent strike for better prison conditions, Brown became their "closest adviser outside prison walls." She "helped distill the inmate complaints into a list of demands. She held a conference call... to develop a strategy with various groups, including the Georgia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Nation of Islam." Personal life Brown has one daughter, Ericka Abram, fathered by Black Panther member Raymond Hewitt, but Hewitt was mostly absent from his daughter's life. At Hewitt's funeral, Elaine Brown was in attendance. Bibliography Brown, Elaine. The Condemnation of Little B: New Age Racism in America (Boston: Beacon, 2002). Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story (New York: Doubleday, 1992). References External links Elaine Brown, Brown's website. "Black Panther Party long victimized by campaign of lies", an article by Brown in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 25, 2000. Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: "Repression Breeds Resistance" - video interview by Democracy Now! Elaine Brown Papers at Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University 1943 births Activists for African-American civil rights African-American candidates for President of the United States African-American women writers American Marxists Women Marxists American women writers African-American writers African-American Marxists Members of the