Brown is a native Miamian who has spent the last 19 years working in South Florida’s hospitality industry.

Previously, she was the general manager at The Angler’s Resort in South Beach. Her professional experience also includes serving as the vice president of sales and marketing for Boutique Hospitality Management and positions with Island Outpost, The Double Tree, and Interstate Hotels.

The LGBT Visitor Center, the only visitor center of its kind in the United States supported by a gay and lesbian chamber, will celebrate its second anniversary next month.

It is located at 1130 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, in the lobby of Old City Hall.

“Managing the LGBT Visitor Center allows me the opportunity to create a unique travel experience and a positive place where all are welcome,” said Brown, who also served as co-emcee for the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade for the past four years. “We are working diligently to build programs and resources to welcome the LGBT traveler by introducing them to the myriad of people, businesses and attractions our city has to offer.”

WILTON MANORS – In a special reception held on Sunday, March 18, Paul Hyman, former Executive Director of The Pride Center at Equality Park said his goodbyes to the not-for-profit’s volunteers, staff, and Board of Directors. He was the organization’s longest-serving executive director.

Hyman served for seven years, bringing The Pride Center—which was then known as the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida, or GLCC–out of its toughest times, and in the process making it one of the largest and most respected LGBT community centers in the country.

Hyman inherited an organization that had a building with leaking roofs, intermittent air conditioning, and dwindling community support. A new staff and expanded program services were soon followed by increased donations and memberships. In 2010, Hyman moved the GLCC to a 2.2 acre complex of five buildings and renamed the organization “The Pride Center at Equality Park.”

He is leaving South Florida to become the Executive Director of the Stonewall Foundation in New York City, a public charity for the Big Apple’s LGBT community which provides funding to other LGBT organizations.

Robert Boo will become The Pride Center’s new executive director. He worked with Hyman for five of the last six years as the center’s Director of Development as well as currently serving on its board.

“I’m so thrilled to be leaving the Center in such capable hands,” Hyman said at his farewell. “With Robert [Boo], the staff, the volunteers and the board, there is just no doubt about the bright future that’s in store for the Center and this community.”