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As sole proprietor of Browning
Consulting for the past six
years, Dr. Browning focuses on
research design, implementation
and evaluation. Her business
conducts research studies for
federal, state, and local
agencies – including the
National Institute of Health’s
Center for the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Service
Administration Prevention,
National Center for Forensic
Science, and University of South
Florida. Her primary areas
of interest are evaluation
research on parenting programs,
juveniles (mental
health/suicide; substance abuse;
delinquency), and community
collaboration and climate
surveys. Additionally, Dr.
Browning has taught parenting
classes in a juvenile detention
center, where she collected data
for her publication about
delinquents’ self-concept of
themselves as parents. Ms.
Browning has also taught
undergraduate criminology
courses for the past five years
at the University of South
Florida on Juvenile Justice
Systems, Research Methods,
Theories of Criminal Behavior,
Typologies of Crimes, and Survey
of Criminal Justice System.
She received her B.A. from the
University of Minnesota Moorhead
State and her M.S. from
University of Central Florida,
where in 2000 she received the
Outstanding Graduate Student of
the Year Award. In 2003
she received honorable mention
at the Florida College Student
of the Year Award Ceremony in
Tallahassee, and in 2004 she
received a Women’s Leadership
Award from the Women’s Advisory
Committee at the University of
South Florida. Dr.
Browning is a frequent presenter
at national conferences and most
recently was asked by the
National Science Foundation to
speak at one of their
prestigious conferences on
“Graduate Education and the
Graduate Student Climate in the
United States.”
Dr. Browning is the Vice
President of the Humanists of
Florida Association and is one
of the co-authors of the Carl
Sagan Academy’s charter
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