Carter Vance is studying in the Social Work program at Algoma University, holding an Honours B.A. in Psychology from the University of Ottawa. Carter has been active on a number of social and politics issues, from interning on Parliament Hill to frontline work with organizations serving the socially marginalized. His main areas of interest are social program design, political economy and poverty and homelessness prevention. He has previously written for The Moderate Moose and the Algoma Sentient and hosts the Canadian and international politics podcast The Affair's Current (http://theaffairscurrent.blogspot.ca/)