Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, Philosophy (in-progress)

M.A. Tufts University, Philosophy, 2017

B.A. Cal Poly Humboldt, Philosophy, summa cum laude, 2014

AOS: Ethics, Metaethics, Metaphysics

AOC: Environmental Ethics, History of Western Philosophy

“Whitehead on the Experience of Causality,” Process Studies 1 April 2015; 44 (1): 63-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/44798052

"Well-being as Essential Attributive Goodness"

• FrankMeta.6, June 2024

“A Case for the Moral Standing of Insentient Beings"

• Annual Southwest Philosophy Graduate Conference, April 2024

• UT Austin Philosophy Graduate Conference, February 2024

• Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2022

• Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference, July 2022

“The Essential Value of Persons”

• Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, August 2022

On Ken Shockley's “Environmental Harm, What Could it Be?” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2023.

INSTRUCTOR | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

• Bioethics  |  Fall 2024

• Environmental Ethics  |  Summer 2024

• Contemporary Moral Issues: Human Equality*  |  Summer 2022

TEACHING ASSISTANT | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

• Philosophy of Law  |  for Carl Cranor, Spring 2024

• Language, Mind, and Reality  |  for Barry Lam, Winter 2024

• Evil  |  for Howard Wettstein, Winter 2023

• Intro to Logic  |  for Erich Reck, Fall 2022

• Intro to Philosophy*  |  for John Fisher, Spring 2022

• Critical Thinking* |  for Joshua Wood, Winter 2022

• Biomedical Ethics*  |  for Joshua Wood, Fall 2021

• Contemporary Moral Issues*  |  for Jonathan Baker, Summer 2021

• Intro to Law and Society*  |  for Maxwell McCoy, Summer 2021

• Intro to Philosophy*  |  for John Fisher, Spring 2021

• Ethics and the Meaning of Life*  |  for Kim Frost, Winter 2021

* indicates class taught online

TEACHING ASSISTANT | TUFTS UNIVERSITY

• Science, Technology, and Society  |  for Moon Duchin, Spring 2017 

• Language and Mind  |  for Brian Epstein, Fall 2016 

• Intro to Ethics  |  for David Denby, Spring 2016 

SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTOR | CAL POLY HUMBOLDT

• Guided Study in Logic  |  Supplemental Student Instructor, 2012 - 2013 

Course Title  |  Instructor  |  ^ indicates independent study;  * indicates audit 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

• Aspect Perception*  |  Erich Reck

• Essence, Substance, Identity ^*  |  Michael Nelson

• The Moral Status of Human Beings*  |  Agnieszka Jaworska

• Kant’s Moral Theory*  |  Andrews Reath

• Internalism and Externalism about Reasons ^*  |  Andrews Reath

• Actions and Events  |  Kim Frost

• Plotinus  |  Jozef Müller

• Rousseau  |  Andrews Reath

• Wittgenstein’s Tractatus  |  Erich Reck

• Wittgenstein’s On Certainty  |  Howard Wettstein

• The Ontology of Collectives  |  Adam Harmer

• Action and Perception  |  Michael Nelson

• Maimonides’ The Guide of the Perplexed ^  |  Howard Wettstein

• Introduction to Metalogic  |  Erich Reck

• Motivation  |  Agnieszka Jaworska

• Theories of Ethics  |  Andrews Reath

• Descartes and Leibniz  |  Adam Harmer

• Nagel and The Absurd  |  Howard Wettstein

• Constitutivism  |  Michael Nelson

TUFTS UNIVERSITY

• Theories of Value  |  Sigrún Svavarsdóttir

• Phenomenology and Existentialism  |  Avner Baz

• Skeptics, Stoics, and Hedonists  |  Christiana Olfert

• Plato’s and Aristotle’s Ethics  |  Christiana Olfert

• Philosophy of Criminal Justice  |  Erin Kelly

• Formal Logic  |  George Smith

Presentations for Cancer for College Alumni Groups

• “Thinking About the Good Life” (x2)

• “Empathy, Altruism, and Respect: A User's Guide” (x2)

Podcast Interviews

• Interview with The Philosopher's Nest

Distinguished TA Award, UCR, 2023

The Harrah Prize in Applied Philosophy, UCR, for “A Case for the Moral Standing of Insentient Beings”, 2022

Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, UCR, for "The Essential Value of Persons", 2022

The Journal of Ethics

English (native); Hebrew (reading)