El Camino Community College District Board of Trustees Vice President Kenneth Brown was recognized for his leadership and commitment to higher education by the Community College League of California's African American caucus. Brown was honored with the Trustee Leadership Award from the African American California Community College Trustees Caucus of the Community College League of California. This organization works toward achieving equity and increasing the recruitment and retention of African American students, faculty and administrators on college campuses throughout the state.

Brown is an Inglewood resident who has served on the El Camino Community College District Board of Trustees since 2010. He is also a member of the California Community College Trustees Board. Re-elected in spring 2019 to a second three-year term, Brown serves as second vice president for this board that takes positions on and formulates education policy issues that come before the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, the Legislature, and other state-level boards and commissions.

In 2017, Trustee Brown was named a Modern-Day Technology Leader at the 31st Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards STEM Conference. He worked with the California Department of Education as a Content Review Panel expert during California's State Board Science Primary Adoption. He was also approved by the California State Board of Education to serve as a member of the Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee for the update of the Science Framework for California Public Schools. In addition to his service in higher education, Trustee Brown works in the Space Systems Sector at Northrop Grumman and is an adjunct professor of physics at California State University, Dominguez Hills. After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science and physics from Morehouse College in Atlanta, he completed a master's degree in applied physics from Clark Atlanta University.