Brandon is the Director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. He was previously Deputy Director for Smart Justice Litigation and has been with the Criminal Law Reform Project since 2012. He leads the ACLU’s work on reforming pretrial justice, reimagining the role of police in public safety, and expanding the right to counsel. Prior to the ACLU, Brandon worked at the Equal Justice Initiative and the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. He is a 2006 graduate of New York University Law School, where he was a Root-Tilden Kern and AnBryce Scholar. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.