 <p>There is no canonical mechanism in Ember to store and retrieve the current user. The simplest solution is probably to save your current user's account ID to <code>Social.currentAccountId</code> when the user is authenticated (ie. in the success callback of your ajax request). Then you can perform </p> <pre><code>Social.Account.find(Social.get('currentAccountId')) </code></pre> <p>when you need to get the current user.</p>