Brandon Toohey

Brandon Toohey

Brandon is an Independent Living Specialist who believes all people should be able to live independently in their community and assists people with disabilities in finding resources and learning the skills they need to achieve this.

Brandon became connected with Able as a consumer a few years after acquiring his disabilities at age 18. About a year after a head injury he received while training in the military, Brandon developed and was diagnosed with multiple psychiatric disabilities. He had very little knowledge of the disability community at the time and did not have any disability pride in himself. He learned more about the disability community through Able and developed a passion for being involved in the psychiatric disability community. He became an AmeriCorps member at Able where he learned and became involved more in disability culture, as well as developing disability pride in himself. He then moved from the AmeriCorps program into his current Independent Living Specialist role fulltime.

When not at work, Brandon likes to watch professional soccer, listen to music, spend time with his cat, Smudge, and read and write poetry.