Water industry affiliations:

Brick served 14 years on the Pasadena Utility Advisory Commission, which directed the municipal water and power department, including four terms as chair. He is a member of the Colorado River Water Users Associations, American Water Resources Association and a member of the board of POWER (Public Officials for Water & Environmental Reform.) He also belongs to the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy.

Brick is a member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, a national campaign, as well as a member of the Community Advisory Committee of the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA and a member of the Advisory Board of the Water Resources Center Archives at the University of California at Berkeley.

Brick was elected vice-chair of the MWD board from 1998-2000 and chaired the Water Planning & Resources Committee (1995-1998) as well as the Headquarters Committee, which developed MWD’s Union Station Headquarters.  He has also chaired the Water Education Committee, the Water Quality Committee, and the Strategic Plan Implementation Committee. Brick also played a key role in the development of MWD’s World Water Forum program, which provides grants to Southern California colleges for educational efforts addressing world water problems.

Professional and community activities:

Brick is an organizational consultant, currently serving as Managing Director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the protection and promotion of the Arroyo Seco watershed, a major tributary of the Los Angeles River. He has previously served as an executive and consultant for a wide variety of business, governmental and nonprofit organizations such as the Hahamongna Operating Company, Pasadena AIDS Community Coordinating Committee, Hospice of Pasadena, the Pasadena Health Department, USA for Africa and others.

Brick was also a member of the advisory committee of the Business Technology Center of Southern California.  Brick represents the Arroyo Seco Foundation on the Council of Arroyo Seco Organizations and the Council of Arroyo Seco Agencies.

Previous appointments have included the California Energy Commission's Residential Standards Advisory Committee, the Joint Public Utilities Commission/Energy Commission Committee on Marginal Cost Pricing and the advisory committee for the Rand Corporation/Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Peak Period Pricing Experiment. Brick graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.  In 2008 Brick was named Alumnus of the Year of the School of Arts and Letters at that university. 

He has pursued further studies in broadcast journalism and resource economics.  Brick has also been award the Community Leadership Award of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership and the 2008 Engineering Achievement Award by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors Organization of California.