Brian’s passionate voice for organized labor and his track record for creating consensus helps him build support for your issue. When Brian first began lobbying, he fought alongside organized labor to push back against efforts by the state legislature to strip away the collective bargaining rights of state workers and dismantle Wisconsin’s public universities. Today, Brian continues fighting alongside labor where he recently leveraged his coalition-building experience to successfully lobby for the passage of the landmark Postal Service Reform Act and federal funding for an electric postal fleet.

Brian also has a passion for fighting for consumers and building a more competitive marketplace. As a consumer advocate at the National Consumers League, he lobbied to incorporate common-sense consumer protections before numerous state legislatures, and several federal agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Transportation, Federal Communications Commission, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. During his tenure, he led the effort to create a model bill to protect consumers from deceptive automatically renewing contracts and successfully advocated for the model bill to be signed into law in the District of Columbia. 

Before advocating for consumers and workers, Brian worked on Capitol Hill for Congressman Ron Kind. While on the Hill, he worked on trade, tax policy, and environmental protections. 

He earned his Bachelor’s from the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. After graduation, Brian went on to study at Georgetown University, where he received a Master of Arts in American Government. While at Georgetown, Brian studied the developing political divide, and how to build consensus in Congress through grassroots/grasstops advocacy campaigns.