 in 1996 and Ph.D. in 1998, both in Philosophy.Weinstein was named plaintiff in a class action suit (Cianfrocco & Weinstein v. Clinton County Board of Elections, 1989—the name is not exact)

 intended to give college students in New York the right to vote in their college towns, and leading a contingent of over a hundred students who marched on the State House in Albany, New York.That same day, his image appeared in the front page of more than fifty newspapers across the state.