About Brandon
Brandon Robert Watts is an award-winning Activist, Writer, Legal Commentator, Student-Attorney, Speaker, and Strategic Communications Consultant. His efforts in social advocacy have been featured in Black Enterprise, Forbes, The San Bernardino Sun, The Source, Yahoo, and more.
Brandon was born and raised in the city of San Bernardino, CA. Due to his father's incarceration, Brandon was raised by a single mother. His experiences growing up gave him a first-hand view of poverty and how it affects African-American people. Brandon uses this experience to raise awareness about criminal justice reform, gun violence, education, and poverty.
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As an undergraduate at Howard University, Brandon was a student leader on his campus. He was a freshman representative for the Howard College Democrats, Youth Director of the HBCU Alliance of the Hilary Clinton 2016 campaign, Chair of the NAACP Criminal Justice Committee, Board Member of the Thurgood Marshall Organizing Collaborative, and was selected to be Mr. Charles R. Drew Hall.
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Brandon was dedicated to building a career in social advocacy, policy, and law outside of Campus. In 2017, He was selected as an Undergraduate Fellow for Senator Kamala Harris. In 2018, He was also selected as a Public Leaders Fellow for the Howard University Department of Public Safety.
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After graduating from Howard University in 2019, Brandon decided to work on Capitol Hill as an Emerging Leader Fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Here, he expanded his knowledge of public policy, particularly when it comes to inner-city communities.
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Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Brandon assisted in organizing protests around the country and was a leading voice in youth advocating for an end to police brutality. Following this experience, Brandon announced in August of 2020 that he would be running local office in Washington, D.C. His campaign focused on emphasizing local elected officials' power in policies that affected people the most, such as police reform.
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As a student at Howard University School of Law, Brandon served as the vice president of the Graduate Student Assembly and is the director of community service for the Mid-Atlantic Black Law Students Association. In 2023, he was a student attorney for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, where he assisted in representing low-income residents in the Prince George's County court system.
In August 2023, Brandon was selected to be a Public Affairs Fellow at Georgetown University, where he will receive his Masters in Public Relations & Corporate Communications. At Georgetown, he is an Associate for Georgetown Global Consulting, an award-winning and student-led consulting firm.
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He is also the Founder of the Inner City Gun Project, a research non-profit that provides statistical data about shootings that occur in inner-city communities to curb youth gun violence. He is also a Public Affairs Fellow at Vox Global, a strategic communications firm that combines years of experience working with private sector and nonprofit organizations.
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