- Has an MBA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Has traveled to over 30 foreign countries.
- Has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an M.A. in Political Science from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
- Has attended the summer writer's workshops at the University of Iowa.
- Was a Magazine Publishers of America Mentor of the Year Finalist in 2008.
- Travelled to Wounded Knee as a student reporter in the winter of 1973 when armed Native Americans occupied the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. During the trip, he was caught up in a blizzard. He slept in the car during the night at a gas station in order to get gas the next morning when the station opened. He was there to get the story of the FBI agents, the Federal Marshals and the people of the American Indian Movement.
- Served as a consumer marketing director on a number of major magazine brands including Ladies Home Journal, Parents, American Baby, Traditional Home, Midwest Living and Siempre Mujer.
- Was Vice President of Marketing in a digital media company where he traveled to Asia and Europe to call on accounts and work with producers.
- While working on The Battle of Shiloh (2012) documentary film at the Shiloh 150th Anniversary Reenactment, he wrote of the experience and it was carried by five newspapers.
- Brad was at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 reporting on the American Indian Movement (AIM) armed standoff with the U.S. government. While there, he interviewed Russell Means, the president of AIM who later starred in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Thunderheart (1992), and a number of other films.
- While at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 he also interviewed Dennis Banks, an Anishinabe Indian Co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM). He appeared in Thunderheart (1992), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and other films.
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