Brandon Protas serves as a Strategy Director with Complete College America (CCA). He leads the Momentum pillar of strategies which includes Credit for Competency, Multiple Measures, Corequisite Support, Dual Enrollment, and 15 to Finish / Stay on Track. He also supports CCA Alliance members in the West. Brandon is passionate about education as a public good to improve society and to transform individual lives. He utilizes an equity lens to center students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and first-generation students. Brandon previously worked at the Community College of Denver directing a concurrent enrollment program. He also worked for more than a decade in the K-12 system in Tucson, Arizona in a variety of capacities including social work, community building, and college readiness programming.