Steve Brigham
Public engagement leader and author examining the myths, structures, and systems that sustain racial inequality offering a clear roadmap for change.
About
Steve Brigham is a leader in the public engagement field who, for the past twenty-five years, has served as a facilitator, consultant, and designer of complex public meetings and community-building processes on critical public policy issues.
He co-founded Public Engagement Associates in 2014 to provide outstanding community and stakeholder engagement in the metro D.C. area, with significant projects throughout Prince George’s County and the region on land use policy, affordable housing, transportation, economic development, and public school redistricting, to name a few.
He is the author of It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field: Overcoming 8 Racial Myths to Even the Field, and the Substack newsletter, “Leveling the Field (finally!).”
Steve’s work has increasingly tackled racial equity and equitable development issues in his work and volunteer time. He sits on the Boards of the Neighborhood Design Center and Housing Initiatives Partnership and the advisory board of RISE Prince George’s.
Steve lives in Bowie and is incredibly grateful for his two bi-racial children, aged 21 and 16, who bless his life daily.
Books
Featured title by Steve Brigham.
It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field
In It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field, Steve Brigham dissects and challenges deeply ingrained myths that continue to perpetuate racial inequality in America.
Each chapter tackles a specific myth from the fallacy of equal opportunity to the enduring inequities built into housing, education, and justice systems showing how these myths intersect and reinforce modern injustice.
The book also offers a roadmap for systemic change and transformative policy, calling readers to understand race issues in America and join the movement toward a more just and inclusive society.
“...a vital roadmap for understanding the roots of racial injustice and a compelling call to action for all of us to take part in building a more just and equitable society.”
“Comprehensive and bold... exposes the dirty underbelly of White supremacy... and shows why disparities persist across education, health care, criminal justice, housing, and entrepreneurship and what we can do about it.”
How Tiny Homes Are Becoming a Powerful Tool for Solving Our Biggest Crises
Tiny homes are moving from niche to mainstream, supporting disaster recovery, reducing homelessness, and expanding the affordable housing toolkit through scalable design.
How Tiny Homes Are Emerging as a Scalable Solution to America’s Most Pressing Housing Challenges
Tiny homes aren’t a fad, they’re a scalable, human-centered response to homelessness and disaster displacement. Integrated with Housing First and supportive services, they can turn emergency shelter into a pathway to long-term stability.