Our Team

John Rider has been with BridgeUSA in myriad roles. He started as a crowd-plant at a townhall as a favor for his friends, and has since served in roles ranging from chapter-level special projects coordinator to Chief Communications Officer of the national organization. His involvement began with BridgeUSA’s reinvention at the University of California in 2016. John’s current responsibility is as a human sounding board, helping rudder the boundless enthusiasm of BridgeUSA’s passionate students. “Like patience, tolerance is necessitated by something one would prefer did not exist. It involves managing the presence of the undesirable, the tasteless, the faulty—even the revolting, repugnant, or vile. In this activity of management, tolerance does not offer resolution or transcendence, but only a strategy for coping.” -Wendy Brown