John Freyer is an Associate Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Media at VCUarts. Freyer is a Peer Recovery Support Specialist & is a founding member of the Inclusive Recovery City initiative in Richmond VA. His projects include the Free Narcan Bike, All My Life for Sale, Free Ice Water, Free Hot Coffee, & Free Hot Supper. Freyer is a Fulbright Scholar, a MacDowell Fellow & an Artist in Residence at Light Work & the Fannon Center, Doha. Freyer has brought his social practice projects to the TEDx stage, Mixed Greens Gallery in New York, the Liverpool Biennial Fringe, & was a 2018 Tate Exchange Associate at Tate Modern. Freyer founded the traveling symposium Recovery in Practice at Columbia University in the Fall of 2023. Recovery In Practice has since been hosted at University of Derby, Teesside University in the UK in 2024 and Virginia Commonwealth University and At the Portland Alano Club in 2025.