I'm a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My research focuses the politics of repair. I study questions such as: is reparation vital for equality? Would it be better to focus on race-neutral interventions on the legacy of historic racism? Does retribution advance equality in the aftermath of injustice? I also explore applications of reparative justice to issues such as police brutality and the #defund movement.

I think Bertrand Russell was mostly wrong about philosophy. Philosophy "for the sake of the questions themselves" is not really the point. Nor is the point to undo dogma by traveling "into the region of liberating doubt," tho there is something to that. For me, philosophy has formative value. At the individual level: inviting us to sojourn down pathways of care and love, away from apathy. At the societal level: inviting us to sojourn toward systems and narratives worthy of the people around us. The real value of philosophy, then, is its ability to help us carve new pathways and to encourage us to be sojourners on these pathways. Toward justice. Toward peace. Toward truth. Philosophy provides analytical tools and reflective experiences well suited for these endeavors.