Brandon was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California where he took part in sports and boy scouts traveling all across the country to state and national parks. He left Santa Rosa to attend UC Santa Barbara, studying pharmacology and neurobiology, then staying in Santa Barbara to work as a Sr. Clinical Research Coordinator for Sansum Diabetes Research Institute. Since then, Brandon came to UCLA for a degree in medicine and has joined the Everett lab. In his free time, Brandon still likes to camp around California as well as cycle throughout LA county.