Brandon is a Frederick County small business owner and lifelong lover of the outdoors. His civic engagement started as the founder of the first sustainability-oriented organization in the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, and continues to this day advocating on Frederick County land use issues. He has served for two years in the fight to stop the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, and is a member of the Frederick County Data Center Referendum Committee. He loves animals (especially dogs!), adventurous travel, and tinkering on a good project.