Profile: Brandon has been involved with Esperanto for nearly twenty years, from his first classes with the Atlanta Esperanto club, through three years of NASK, to Esperanto activities across the US, as well as South America and Europe. He would like to use Esperanto in Africa and Asia in the future.
Since the start of the pandemic, he has renewed his interest in Esperanto literature - original as well as translated. He has been writing seriously in Esperanto for the last two years, and has played an active role in a virtual Esperanto writing group for the last year. In November of 2021 he participated in National Novel Writing Month, writing 50,000 words of a novel in Esperanto. He is an active participant in many Esperanto literary contests, and a contributor to American Esperantist and Beletra Almanako. He has also been active as a participant and judge for various editions of the American Good Film Festival.
Brandon is currently working on a project related to an influential figure in the development of Science Fiction culture, who was also an active Esperantist.
Brandon works full-time as a Salesforce administrator. He is also a volunteer Salesforce administrator for ESF. He holds a BA with honors in Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures from the University of California, Davis.
Areas of Interest:
- Early science fiction fandom and Esperanto
- Interesting historial Esperantists
- Esperanto literature
- Esperanto as a tool for understanding world literature
- Possibilities for developing Esperanto theater and cinema