About Patrick St. John

Patrick St. John is a graphic designer by trade and student organizer by love.

Patrick has been organizing and agitating since High School (where he set up, with a few friends, a wildly successful underground student satire monthly). In undergrad he co-founded the area's first USAS chapter, and saw by the end of his Junior year the administration signing onto the WRC. He continued to agitate for student rights and power as both Editor-in-Chief of the official student newspaper, and later as student government President (where he advocated abolishing the position).

Patrick attended a year of law school, and frankly, hated it (from the lack of pedagogy, to the dripping-with-dogma subject matter, to the astonishing price tag). He left ("escaped") law school after his first year, after interning that summer as a field agent for the NLRB.

Now working as a freelance graphic designer, during his off hours Patrick is still organizing students, writing a book on student power, and trying to spend as much time with his girlfriend as possible.

For far too long contemporary student activism has been splintered along issue-based lines and caught up in small, isolated battles on each campus, fighting (however valiantly and often successfully) for relatively minor concessions from those who run their universities. Organizing and campaigning for student power on campus not only crosses issue, party and ideological lines, but it also lays the groundwork for future victories. With the recent founding of groups like the Democratizing Education Network and the reinvigorated Students for a Democratic Society, we're finally seeing new opportunities to make lasting shifts in the balance of power. This blog is meant to help in what small capacity it can in that struggle.

Patrick is available to speak, advise, and present to students on a wide range of topics. Email him for more details.