Tyler Bugg, Associate Editor (Spring 2012)
Tyler S. Bugg is a New York-based arts practitioner working within the intersections of theatre arts, memory, and trauma. His current work explores rape and sexual violence as a weapon of international conflict and the roles of community-based arts techniques in addressing them.
Before moving to New York, Tyler was a student of international affairs and cultural geography at The University of Georgia. During his time there, he served as a senior intern with the Office of Congressman John Barrow, an operations coordinator with Teach For America, a regional organizer for STAND: the student-led division of United to End Genocide, a organizing fellow with Obama for America, and as associate editor for the Georgia Political Review. His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Next New Deal, among other politics and policy journals. He was named a Millennial Values Fellow for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where he participated in a series of panels and talks in Washington, D.C. on the political values of the millennial generation. Graduating in 2012 with a BA in International Affairs, Tyler was also awarded the university’s Pearson Atlas Prize.
While creating stage plays and installation art around New York, Tyler is also currently pursuing an MA in Arts Politics at the Center for Art and Public Policy at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Articles by Tyler
‘I am not Trayvon Martin’: Dismantling White Privilege in Activism (March 28, 2012)
Education without Representation: Partisan Politics and Georgia’s Charter School Amendment (February 23, 2012)
Sh*t Inequality Says: Identity Politics and the Social Media Generation (February 2, 2012)