Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  Each year, the incoming leaders of Roosevelt Institution chapters gather at the FDR Estate in Hyde Park, New York. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." — Teddy Roosevelt    Patrick St. John Member of: Center on Economic & Social Policy Contact info: Contact Email:  patrick-at-forstudentpower-d0t-org City, State, ZIP:  Washington, DC Website:  http://www.forstudentpower.org/ Blog:  http://www.forstudentpower.org/blog Policy interests: Education, Labor and workers' rights I'm a recent graduate, full-time graphic designer and part-time student organizer. I organize with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and run the blog For Student Power - which focuses on student activism through the lens of student syndicalism and student power issues. I've also done work with the Democratizing Education Network and the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. I'm currently writing a book on student organizing, which among other things argues that students should be organizing and agitating around not simply policy demands (e.g. get recycling on campus, end sweatshop-labor contracts, etc.) but structural demands (i,e. democratizing decision-making at all levels in the university). I also give presentations and workshops to large and small groups on topics such as strategy, tactics, movement history, and the intersection of art and politics.   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359