Leigh Dodson is a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She attended Vassar College (BA) and New York University, where she received a Masters in American Studies. Leigh was the graduate student participant in the Mellon Foundation funded, “Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity," an interdisciplinary research collective. She is currently writing a dissertation on class practices, debt, and alternative economic activity.