I am a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

My research can be divided into three strands.

The first revolves around problems in contemporary social justice movement building, especially the role of experience and emotion in broader social transformation. In my dissertation I think about this from the perspective of allyship.

The second responds to questions in social epistemology and philosophy of science about the value of incorporating empirical methods into normative inquiry, especially in domains like bioethics. Indeed, my dissertation pushes the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy by drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews (borrowing methods from sociology) to focus on the affective lives and political psychology of feminist men and anti-racist white women.

The third focuses on injustices in health and medicine. Currently I’m looking at the experiences of fat people, people with eating disorders, and those who suffer food injustice.