Ryan Andrew Brown is a senior behavioral/social scientist at the RAND Corporation. Brown's work concerns the role of culture and social networks in driving risk-taking, violence, and other destructive and self-destructive behaviors. His current work focuses on the individual, social, and cultural drivers of domestic extremism. He also conducts research that betters the lives of rural and remote populations, with a focus on American Indian and Alaska Native groups. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from Emory University, and received postdoctoral training in population health from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Francisco.