President and Co-Founder Mr. Brandon co-founded the Fair Elections Legal Network in 2006 as a national, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to remove barriers to registration and voting for traditionally underrepresented constituencies and improve overall election administration through administrative, legal, and legislative reform. Now, Fair Elections Center provides technical assistance, materials and legal analysis and support to a variety of mobilization organizations representing students and youth, minorities, and other underrepresented groups. Mr. Brandon has more than 35 years of public policy, legislative, media and campaign experience at the federal, state, and local levels. He has specialized in health policy, tax policy, access to higher education and internet policy at federal agencies, in Congress, and at the state and local level. Mr. Brandon has experience in all aspects of election law, how mobilization organizations interact with those laws and on voter suppression.
Over the last 10 years, he has held trainings on election law, interacted with election officials and non-profit voter registration and voter engagement organizations. He chairs the health planning agency for Washington DC. Mr. Brandon has been an advisor to the White House on health care strategy and an adjunct lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School. He has written and testified extensively and appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows. He received his JD from the National Law Center at George Washington University where he was an editor of the Law Journal and elected Order of the Coif, and received his BA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He has written and testified extensively, and appeared on numerous national and local TV and radio shows. Mr. Brandon is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
He can be reached at rbrandon@fairelectionscenter.org
