[2] In 2023, Cvjetanovic started his pursuit of a Ph.D. in political science at the Catholic University of America, and ran for election as treasurer of the Graduate Student Association.
[2][1] His father worked at a casino; his mother received a brain cancer diagnosis during her pregnancy with him and the cost of her treatment left the family cash strapped.
[7] A photograph of Cvjetanovic and Teddy Joseph Von Nukem holding tiki torches at the Unite the Right rally became the image most commonly used to represent the 2017 right-wing protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
[8] A Boston Globe opinion piece by media studies professor Aniko Bodroghkozy[9] described Cvjetanovic as sporting a "Hitler Youth haircut" in the photograph.
During a 2017 interview on local television about his role in the rally, Cvjetanovic denied being racist, but also spoke of "the slow replacement of white heritage in the United States" and described Confederate general Robert E. Lee as someone that he "wanted to honour [for] what he stood for during his time.