Jim Brown has worked in the performing arts, in social services, and in the insurance industry. He taught in the Drama Department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for thirteen years; was a public information officer for disaster relief in the United States and overseas for the American Red Cross; negotiated provider contracts for Aetna Health Plans, Beech Street Corporation, and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, and served as a managed care regulator for the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. He is currently the Director of Health Services at The Actors Fund where he advises artists and entertainment professionals on their health insurance and health care options and gives more than eighty health insurance seminars and workshops around the country each year. He and his staff also operate the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic and run the Access to Health Insurance/Resources for Care website (www.ahirc.org).