Rabbi Carey Brown grew up in Minneapolis, MN and received her undergraduate degree with honors in Sociology and Jewish Studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She studied in the rabbinical program at the New York school of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion where she received the degree of Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters in 2004 and rabbinic ordination in 2005.
During her student tenure at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Brown had the honor of serving as a student rabbi in several congregations, including: Beth Israel in Indiana, PA, Bet Shalom in Minnetonka, MN, Rodef Shalom in Bombay, India, and Temple Beth-El in Great Neck, NY. In addition, Rabbi Brown has spent considerable time in Israel as a student in the Alexander Muss High School in Israel, Hebrew University, and Hebrew Union College; as a delegate for ARZA at the World Zionist Congress; and as staff working with Kesher Birthright Israel and incoming rabbinical and cantorial studies at Hebrew Union College's Israel Campus. Rabbi Brown traveled to Poland in 2003 to dialogue with Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic graduate students from Germany, Poland, and the United States about Interfaith Relations in a post-Vatican II world.