boston area and montreal. recent number theory grad student. union steward. parliamentarian. theatre lighting designer. transgender. protest photographer. nonfree software disliker. isometry.

"If there's one person who knows all the ways in which our systems do not work, it's Asa." ---Fabrice Labeau, Vice President (Administration and Finance), McGill University

"like one of the least fascist people I know" ---@sanvsarr

I like radical empathy, pragmatic utopianism, connection, and the occasional dose of numinous. IFS is pretty neat, too.