 Brandon got into the labor movement as a graduate student and is now the first directly elected leader of Region 9A. His family were refugees from the Guatemalan Civil War of the 1980s, and to quote his UAW bio, his commitment to building worker power comes in large part from his experience in seeing how union membership allowed his family to achieve a level of stability and job protections that working-class immigrants in non-union jobs rarely have. Apologies for the telephone audio. We had some technical difficulties with our usual setup for this one.