I'm a teaching assistant and doctoral student at UWM in the department of History. I've lived in Milwaukee since August 2009. I'm a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, the Alliance of History Graduate Students, the American Civil Liberties Union-Milwaukee Chapter, the Anarchist Black Cross, People's Books Co-Op, the Step by Step Collective, the Penokee Support Committee, the UWM Boycott Coalition For Worker's Rights, the UWM Education Right's Campaign*, Milwaukee Copwatch*, the Inclusion Committee of the Riverwest Co-Op, and the Center Street Free Space. * Indicates the organization is at present inactive.