Board Member Profiles - Kristi ("KBB") Burton Brown

Kristi ("KBB") Burton Brown (R)

4th Congressional District, Kiowa
Terms of Office: January 2025 - January 2031

Kristi Burton Brown is the Executive Vice President at the Advance Colorado Institute where she oversees policy reports on economic, education, mental health, crime, and affordability issues. She is the former Chairwoman of the Colorado Republican Party – the first woman to be elected in 40 years and the youngest Chair in Colorado Republican history.

As a former figure skater, Kristi is the Board Chair of Female Athletes United, a nonprofit organization that successfully sued to stop the implementation of the Biden Administration’s Title IX changes that discriminated against women and girls in sports. Kristi is a constitutional attorney, focusing on First Amendment and Equal Protection issues and is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court where she has submitted briefs in a number of landmark decisions, including Dobbs v. Jackson (the case that overturned Roe v. Wade) and Loper v. Raimondo (the case that overturned the Chevron Doctrine).

She is a former Associate Scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the former managing editor of Live Action News, and a board member of the Colorado Family Life Center. Kristi has been a substitute teacher in Colorado’s rural public schools and she currently holds a TESOL certificate and tutors 4^th-6^th graders, including first-generation Americans, in grammar and writing. She is a guest host for the Dan Caplis Show on 630 KHOW. Kristi lives with her family in Douglas County but was raised in rural Colorado just over the El Paso County line. As a proud homeschool graduate, she and her husband now homeschool their children with a classical Christian education.