I'm a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My research focuses on the rectification of injustice. I study questions such as: is reparation vital for equality? Would it be better (normatively and politically) to focus our political energy on race-neutral forms of redress? Does retribution advance equality in the aftermath of injustice? Does reparation complement abolitionist and #defund movements? Can AI make policing more just? 

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: it supplies relective opportunities that can spur us to sojourn down pathways of care and love, away from apathy. At the societal level: it gives us critical tools for evaluating whether social systems and narratives are worthy of the people around us. The real value of philosophy, then, is its ability to help us critically 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.