United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Office of Senator Peter Welch
Washington, D.C.
Brandon will spend his fellowship year as a Legal Fellow with the Office of Senator Peter Welch. He will serve the Senator in his capacity as a member of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee by preparing the Senator for Judiciary and Rules Committee hearings, drafting memoranda on issues facing the federal judiciary, and advising work on legislation.
In 2025, Brandon received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, completing over 1,000 hours of pro bono service. On campus, Brandon participated in the Labor and Employment Action Project, La Alianza, and the Catholic Law Students Association. Brandon was also a Teaching Fellow for two Harvard Government Department seminars, one on the law and politics of voting in the United States and another on public policymaking processes for environmental and climate change issues. During his summers, he interned with Centro de los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City on the labor rights of U.S. seasonal migrant workers, with the support of the Chayes Fellowship, and with the California Department of Justice in its Environmental/Land Use and Conservation section. Additionally, as a clinic student with the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, he externed for the Southern Environmental Law Center and the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Brandon is from Orange County, California. Prior to law school, Brandon supported climate action policy and local constituent services for now-Mayor Larry Agran in Irvine, California, and coordinated workforce development training services for Dreambound, a financial technology startup. Since college, he has also led Voters Choose, a civics engagement nonprofit. He studied political economy as an undergraduate and received his degree from Harvard College in 2020.
He is passionate about sustainable economic development and democracy reform, and he dances, writes, and reads for fun.