Brandy was born and raised in Eastern Oregon before moving to the wetter side of the state to attend Pacific University in Forest Grove, where she received her BS in Biology. Post-college, she took opportunities to study breeding birds in the cotton fields of Georgia, and roam the grasslands and Coastal foothills of California’s San Joaquin Valley before returning home to Oregon. Brandy has been a biologist for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon since 2001. Her extracurricular activities are as diverse as Oregon’s ecoregions.