District 17 Supervisor, Dane County Board
I represent District 17 — a beautiful slice of Madison’s East Side — on the Dane County Board. Regular updates are here.
Committee Assignments:
Public Works and Transportation (April 2022-present)
City-County Homelessness Issues Committee (April 2022-present)
Madison Education Committee (April 2022-present)
Personnel & Finance (August-December 2022)
Current Memberships & Associations
Treasurer, Elvehjem Neighborhood Association
Trustee from Dane County, South Central Wisconsin Library Board
Democratic Party of Dane County
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
National Democratic County Officials
Citizens for Dane County’s Future
Progressive Dane
Previous Memberships & Associations
Chair, East Side Progressives
Chair, Wisconsin AIDS Ride Steering Committee
Education
Master’s Certificate, Program & Project Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA)
Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA, USA)
Study in General Biology and Chemistry, University of East Anglia (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)
bertram brooker’s “sounds assembling”
winnipeg art gallery, february 2019
“The opposite of good is not evil; the opposite of good is indifference. In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
reading list, 2022
Reading
Calling for a Blanket Dance (Hokeah)
Sexual Justice (Brodsky)
How Minds Change (McRainey)
Have Read
The Far Field (Vijay)
The Three Mothers (Tubbs)
Best American Short Stories 2021
Sea of Tranquility (Mandel)
The Pages (Hamilton)
Tell Me an Ending (Harkin)
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern: Plunder
The Invisible Kingdom (O’Rourke)
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water (Alkins)
Tears We Cannot Stop (Dyson)
To Paradise (Yanagihara)
Black Smoke (Miller)
To Read
An Unquiet Mind (Jamison)
Horizontal Vertigo (Villoro)
Popisho (Ross)
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free (Rakoff)
Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain)
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Enriquez)
Plunder (Kaiser)
My Heart (Mehmedinovic)
Square Haunting (Wade)
Do Not Disturb (Wrong)
The Shapeless Unease (Harvey)
Radiant Fugitives (Ahmed)
Geniuses at War (Price)
Afterparties (Veasna)
Everything is Fine (Granata)
Aviary (McNamer)
Pizza Girl (Frazier)
Little Eyes (Schweblin)
Brothers on Three (Streep)
An Ordinary Wonder (Papillon)
In the Wild Light (Zentner)
Unforgetting (Lovato)
The Family Roe (Prager)
(last update: 2 October 2022)
a few favorites from over the years…
2021
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound (Doughty)
The Sum of Us (McGhee)
Black Man in a White Coat (Tweedy)
The Promise (Galgut)
Rememberings (O’Connor)
Things We Lost to the Water (Nguyen)
How Much of These Hills is Gold (Zhang)
Horror Stories (Phair)
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (Walton)
I Came as a Shadow (Thompson)
2020
Trick Mirror (Tolentino)
Politics is for Power (Hersh)
2019
The Cooking Gene (Twitty)
Tenth of December (Saunders)
Heavy (Laymon)
2018
The King is Always Above the People (Alarcón)
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears (Mengestu)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Thien)
Flying Lessons and Other Stories (Oh)
2017
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching (Smith)
2016
A Strangeness in My Mind (Pamuk)
The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)
The Tsar of Love and Techno (Marra)
Americanah (Adichie)
Earlier
Snow (Pamuk)
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin)
So You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star (Slichter)
Best American Sports Writing 2008
Not Dead and Not for Sale (Weiland)
Joseph Anton (Rushdie)