About
Brason sustained a severe cerebral contusion at the age of 18 after his all-terrain motorcycle flipped over. He spent a month in a hospital and over a year in therapy at a brain injury rehabilitation center.
Brason is now a disability advocate with 30 years’ experience working in health care and public health. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and the University of Southern California. He is a recipient of an AARP-Andrus Foundation Scholarship that enabled him to work at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. His writing has appeared in journals published by the American Medical Association, the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, the Council for Exceptional Children, among others.
Brason is married to wife Ling and has one daughter, Amanda.
Brason’s mission is to use his life experiences to offer hope to survivors, parents, and all others who work with persons with disabilities. He inspires to provide the story he longed for and give others what he did not have. He is pragmatic and visionary about what persons with disabilities can potentially achieve.
Memoir
“Without a Helmet” is a creative non-fiction manuscript about Brason’s experiences during the first decade after sustaining a brain injury. This is a completed manuscript currently in search for a publisher.
Storyline: Teen survivor of a severe traumatic brain injury relearns how to walk and speak, perseveres through college, and goes on to become a Washington lobbyist—where the image he creates and the truth he covers eventually collide.