Author Tyler Bieber presents and reads from his new biography of Father Tom Oddo CSC (1944-1989), a gay Catholic priest and the 17th President of the University of Portland. Spanning the years between WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Against the Current is a reflection on Tom’s life and legacy as a civil rights activist, educational leader, and queer theologian, and his impact on the arc of the church in the wake of Vatican II. This book reading is free to attend, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.