ROBERT M. BRANDON & ASSOCIATES
A public affairs firm working in the public interest.

 

                                   Who We Are

The Brandon & Associates team is led by Robert M. Brandon, an attorney with more than 25 years of public policy, legislative, media and campaign experience. Over the last ten years, he has specialized to telecommunication policy, information technology, consumer digital rights, and broadband and internet policy at the FCC, in Congress, and at the state and local level.  He has also participated in a number of healthcare initiatives involving regional business interests and underserved communities.  As head of Citizen Action's national office from 1986 to 1993, he was responsible for overall public policy development, legislative and electoral strategy, and media and public relations for the three-million-member consumer organization. He is recognized as one of the nation's leading consumer advocates, and he works closely with a variety of public interest groups throughout the country.

National Journal profiled Robert M. Brandon as a person who "has spent his career fighting Goliaths. He bested Big Oil over the oil depletion allowance, beat corporate America on tax reform and battled the utility industry over electric rates."

Mr. Brandon has been a Democratic National Committee consultant and advisor to the White House on health care strategy. He has served as the Executive Director of the Citizen/ Labor Energy Coalition, director of the Tax Reform Research Group, and an adjunct lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School. He has written and testified extensively, and appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows.

 

Senior Associate Karen L. Neuman is an attorney whose experience in telecommunications law and policy spans more than 20 years.  In addition to legislative work on common carrier matters for the national association that represents state Public Service Commissions, she served as a staff member with the FCC federal-state joint board in the mid-1980s where she represented the interests of  PSC’s on a variety of post-AT&T divestiture issues.  She subsequently practiced with a Washington, D.C. law firm representing municipalities involved in the cable franchise process. During this period she led a team of lawyers in state and federal court proceedings involving first amendment, statutory, contract and state law claims brought against a joint regulatory authority consisting of 22 jurisdictions.  She brings her familiarity with the legislative process and her knowledge of common carrier and cable franchise law to Brandon & Associates, where she works on broadband/internet policy on behalf of the firm’s clients.  She also serves as Legal Director of the Fair Elections Legal Network, a nonpartisan resource for election lawyers working to increase voter participation by constituencies traditionally under-represented at the polls.

Ms. Neuman has served on the Boards of numerous nonprofit organizations in Montgomery County, Maryland and the District of Columbia.  She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and obtained a J.D. from Antioch School of law in 1984.

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Senior Associate Nancy J. MacWood is an attorney with more than twenty years' experience in legislative policy, organizational development and management, and special fundraising projects. Her areas of expertise as legislative staff in the U.S. Senate included health, welfare, women's, labor and Native American issues, as well as alcoholism and drug abuse.

In addition to her Congressional experience, she served as a Law Clerk in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She also has worked for the American Bar Association, and directed the ABA's Commission on Youth Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. 

She is a local elected official and Chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3C in Washington, D.C.  She is involved in local zoning, housing, historic preservation and public safety regulation.  She is a graduate of Manhattanville College and holds a J.D. from Antioch School of Law.

 

 

Program Associate Amy Collins Law brings experience in Pennsylvania state government along with a background in non-profit public relations, community outreach and advocacy to Robert M. Brandon & Associates.  Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Amy began her career working for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor as a special assistant and deputy communications director.  Following her employment with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, she worked as the public relations and community outreach coordinator for the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, where she worked on overall organizational communications and assisted in grassroots advocacy and outreach efforts. 

 

Amy is a graduate of the honors program of Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA where she studied both Political Science and Communications with a concentration in public relations.

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Program Assistant Jane Argetsinger comes to Robert M. Brandon and Associates with a diverse set of experiences.  Originally from upstate New York, Jane began her experiences in Washington as a Senate page for Senator Schumer.  During college she interned for the American Red Cross of the National Capital Area as well as The Potomac Advocates.  She also spent a summer interning in the Community Planning and Development Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s New York City Field Office.

Jane is very interested in education issues and tutored in the DC Public Schools for four years while in college.  She was very involved with DC Reads, and served as a team leader for the program during her senior year.  Following college, she spent the summer teaching in the Los Angeles Unified Public School District. 

Jane graduated cum laude from The George Washington University with a dual major in Political Science with a public policy focus and Sociology. 

Since September 2006, Jane has served as Program Director for Fields of Dreams, an after-school program serving six elementary schools and three middle schools in Wards 6, 7 and 8.

 

 

Program Assistant Linda Fecteau brings experience in communications and government to Robert M Brandon & Associates. Originally from central Maine, Linda interned for a variety of offices and organizations while in college, including the office of Congressman Michael Michaud (D-ME), the Media and Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, NBC, and CNN. She also spent two summers working in the town hall of a beach community in southern Maine.  

 

Linda graduated suma cum laude from the George Washington University where she majored in Political Communications and minored in Journalism.

 

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Robert M. Brandon & Associates

1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 712, Washington, DC 20036

Tel. (202) 331-1550  Fax (202) 331-1663  Email: main@robertbrandon.com