Jeff Friedman was appointed to Rutgers University in 2003 and is now Professor of Dance Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts. He was a working contemporary dance artist based in San Francisco from 1979 to 1997, touring world-wide from Alaska's Kodiak Island to Australia's World Fair, and throughout the former Soviet Union during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From 1988-2013, as a community organizer he developed LEGACY, an oral history archive that documents life-histories of artists with HIV-AIDS. He then completed his PhD in Dance History and Theory at University of California-Riverside, focusing on what he calls the embodied interview; Jeff also performs his oral history archive in a work titled Muscle Memory. Jeff also holds an undergraduate degree in architecture, started at Cornell University and then finished at the University of Oregon.