Cynthia Briscoe Brown is currently the Board of Education Member for Seat 8. She has served two terms in the position. She chairs the Board Development Committee of the Atlanta Board of Education and serves on the Policy Review Committee. She is running for her third and final term on the board.

Cynthia is a practicing attorney. She has held leadership positions on the Boards of Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., WABE/WPBA, Calvin Center, Inc., the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning, the Committee for Teaching About the United Nations/Atlanta, the Alliance Française d’Atlanta, and the Parent Teacher Associations of her children’s schools. ​

Cynthia was born and raised in Atlanta. She has a bachelor's degree from Davidson College and and a law degree from Vanderbilt Law School. She and her husband, James F. Brown, Jr., have two children, both of whom attended Atlanta Public Schools. They go to church at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta