Sascha completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University and finished a Masters degree in Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sascha recently began a PhD program at the University of Illinois, Institute for Communications Research, where he is currently a Telecommunications Fellow. As a community organizer, Sascha has overseen logistical support for numerous media projects worldwide—often working closely with people in many of the world's "hot-spots" in his role as the treasurer for the Global Indymedia Network. Sascha is the co-founder of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation and created many of the groups and projects that are its hallmarks today. In addition, he is a co-founder of the Tactical Media Fund, an international non-profit organization that engages in strategic funding disbursements to grassroots media producers; and he is the President of the Acorn Active Media Foundation, which engages in open-source software, Website, and technical development in support of the Global Justice Movement. Finally, Sascha serves on the Board of Directors of his local community radio station, WEFT 90.1 FM, Champaign and is active with the initiative to build a Low-Power FM radiostation, WRFU 104.5 LPFM— Radio Free Urbana, in his hometown.