Line Dance Connection:	What's your name? Do you have any dance nicknames that you're known by?
Lori Brown:	My name is Lori Brown. Initially, I was going to choose my line dance name to be Serious Brown which is a carryover from my softball days decades ago. However, in my effort to figure out a nickname, Danielle Dangerfield suggested ‘Rookie’ that basically puts the ‘cap’ on a long story which exceeds this profile’s space limitations.
Line Dance Connection:	Where are you from and what city do you call home?
Lori Brown:	I am from Sacramento, California, and I call Sacramento my home.
Line Dance Connection:	What do you do in your professional life? Any hobbies outside of dance?
Lori Brown:	I have a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and I am a licensed/registered Electrical Engineer in the State of California. I am a Senior Electrical Engineer, and I have worked as an engineering professional for 31 years. Outside of line dancing, I love reading African-American history and Literature, listening to soul music and traditional jazz. I love watching Cops, NBA games, cooking shows, and writing short stories and poetry. I am a wannabe jazz musician (saxophonist). I love spending time with my family and hanging out with positive, fun, and loving friends who work to live a life of integrity.
Line Dance Connection:	Are you affiliated with any group or groups?
Lori Brown:	I founded a class in Sacramento known as Every Other Friday Soul Line Dancing Re-Cap, Review, and Preview; simply called the Every Other Friday Crew or Every Other Friday.
Line Dance Connection:	How long have you been dancing?
Lori Brown:	I have been line dancing for four years. December 1, 2011 is my line dancing birthday.
Line Dance Connection:	How did you get involved in dancing?
Lori Brown:	In June of 2011, I was celebrating a dear friend’s 75th birthday at a local club that hosted line dance classes. Six months later in December, two high school friends and I decided to give line dancing a try. We attended Tina Baltimore’s Thursday night class. My friends caught on and were getting their line dance on, but I could not keep up. Even though I did not know how to Cha Cha or do any other dance step or understand dance step terminology, I fell totally in love with line dancing.
Line Dance Connection:	What do you like most about line dancing?
Lori Brown:	The freedom!! Experiencing the joy of dance without the pressures of needing a dance partner is total freedom. I also really love the creativity, beauty, intelligence, soulfulness, and complexity of advance dance choreography. I like how people are willing to help if they see a dancer’s fire and desire to learn. Finally, I love meeting people from different regions of the country and seeing their different styles of choreography and dance expression.
Line Dance Connection:	If you could change one thing about dancing, what would it be?
Lori Brown:	The only thing I have control over is me and my conduct in the line dance community. Whatever change I may wish to see, must be demonstrated in my actions and treatment of my fellow line dancers. This beautiful craze we call line dancing is so wonderful and precious. I work every day so that my conduct serves as a testimony and example of my unconditional love and respect for the history, current state, and future of line dancing.
Line Dance Connection:	Tell me one thing about yourself that the dance community would find surprising.
Lori Brown:	I am very sensitive. I cry on commercials and at movies, weddings, graduations, and the airport. And, I love knives and guns.
Line Dance Connection	Is there a funny dance story you'd like to share in 3 sentences or less?
Lori Brown:	A group of line dancers were riding in a van headed back to Sacramento from Los Angeles. Two line dancers thought they were going to get their sleep on. You should have seen them. They had stayed up all night partying at the Townhouse in LA, shopped all afternoon at Santee Alley, ate a big late lunch, and were bragging about how they were about to sleep all the way home. They had their sweaters, coats, and scarves pulled over their heads with their necks titled backward against their headrests…ready for a six-hour nap. When that van driver started whipping from lane to lane and accelerating wildly and rolling u on the rear-end of cars and semi-trucks, those two line dancers jumped from under their covers screaming and hollering Whoa-Whoa!!! Hold On!! Needless to say, they stayed wide awake watching the road and holding on for dear life for the six-hour ride back to Sacramento. I won’t call out their names! LOL!!