Travis Brown is the renewable energy program manager for the Texas Department of Rural Affairs. He also serves as co-chair of the Texas 25x ’25 Alliance and as coordinator for the Rural Alliance for Renewable Energy. Before joining the Office of Rural Community Affairs in 2005, Travis worked three years as energy projects director for the Texas office of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. He also worked many years as a reporter and editor, including reporting for newspapers in Dallas, El Paso, Lubbock, Temple, Denton and Sacramento, California. He lives in Lee County.