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Originally from Logansport, Indiana, Bryan was born and raised in a working, middle-class family. He was the first in his
immediate family to attend college, successfully paying for school through various high school and college jobs and student
loans.
Bryan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Criminology in 1997 and in 1999 a Master of Arts
degree in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education, both from Ball State University. Bryan has two younger
sisters, one older step-brother and one younger step-sister. His mother and step-father live in Indiana and his father and
step-mother live in Ohio.
Bryan moved to Oshkosh in August of 1999 to work at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He worked four years in the
Department of Residence Life and currently is an Assistant Director of Academic Advising in the Undergraduate Advising
Resource Center. In this position, Bryan coordinates the undergraduate advising for students in the College of Education
and Human Services and the technology and academic support programs for the advising center.
Bryan met and married his wife Amanda in Oshkosh. The youngest of three children, Amanda is a native of Markesan, WI,
and earned a Bachelor of Social Work degree in 2002 from UW Oshkosh. She, too, was a first-generational college
student, and successfully paid her way through college by working and student loans. Amanda is a University Services
Associate for the Center for New Learning at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Bryan and Amanda are members of First Congregational Church and Propel. They own a home on the south side of
Oshkosh where they live with their son Elliot and two adopted cats, Zeus and Apollo. They also are a proud uncle and aunt
to numerous nieces and nephews.
Prior to his election to the Oshkosh Common Council in April 2005, Bryan was a member of the Oshkosh Plan Commission
and Oshkosh Comprehensive Plan Update Committee. Bryan currently is the council representative on the Cable Access
Television Commission and Traffic Review Advisory Board. Bryan was re-elected to a second two-year term in April 2007,
earning the most votes of all of the council candidates. In April 2008, Bryan was elected by his council peers to be Deputy
Mayor.
Outside of his work on the council, Bryan serves as President of the UW Oshkosh Senate of Academic Staff and previously
on the Oshkosh Area Humane Society Board of Directors. He also is involved in the Oshkosh Area League of Women
Voters, Winnebago County Democratic Party and is a graduate of Leadership Oshkosh and the Oshkosh Police
Department Citizens Academy. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys golfing, playing in a summer Oshkosh rec softball league,
spending time with family and friends and enjoying he and Amanda's favorite local band Road Trip.
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