Brandon Lee, MAT, is a Community Conscious Policing Strategist and the co-founder of Training 4 Transformation, LLC, a community-led organization that trains law enforcement alongside the people they serve. A survivor of racial profiling, he helped develop Community Conscious Policing, a public-health centered response model to end law enforcement violence that aims to correct and restore institutions into healthy, inclusive environments. An expert in transforming traumatic circumstances into opportunities, Brandon worked with the Coalition of Police Accountability to defund the Office of Internal Affairs in the Oakland Police Department and redirect their budget to fund the community-led Civilian Police Review Board (CPRB). He also served as NAACP Legal Redress Committee Chairman to advocate for the rights of students and community members who were survivors of racial profiling, hate crimes, and police misconduct. Most recently, Brandon was hired by the City of Portland to establish the Portland Committee on Community Engaged Policing and the Latino Public Safety Commission for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. As a board member of the Law Enforcement Data Collection and Policy Review Committee (LECC), a statewide governor-appointed task force that assists Oregon law enforcement to perform their missions without inequitable or unlawful discrimination, he worked to pass Oregon House Bill 2355. It requires law enforcement agencies to collect and submit demographic data of a person contacted during a traffic or pedestrian stop. This data will be analyzed annually to identify and correct patterns or practice of racial profiling. Uniquely positioned for his role in community advocacy, Brandon is an initiate of several cultural rites of passages that influence his approach, including the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, the Order of Prince Hall Freemasonry, and the Earth Center. Brandon was the only Black male in his class admitted to the prestigious College Preparatory High School in Oakland, ranked as the best private high school in California and fourth nationally by Niche. He earned a double major in Spanish and Public Policy from Houston Baptist University. Brandon is regarded as an internationalist by the School for International Training, where he earned a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) English to Speakers of Other Languages. Brandon learned Spanish as a second language by majoring in college and traveling internationally. He began in high school with World Learning and the Experiment in International Living language immersion program where he lived with a host family in Granada, Spain. It was an honor for him to return as a translator to Barcelona for the World Aids Conference hosted by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela. Since then, Brandon studied international business at the University of Havana, Cuba, and lived with a host family in Morelia, Michoacán where he studied Spanish language and Mexican culture at an institute named El Centro Mexicano Internacional. Married with three children. Brandon is from Oakland, California, and Houston, Texas, but currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Learn more at www.T4TSavesLives.com.