In the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
Areas of Specialization
Ethics, Social Epistemology, Classical Chinese Philosophy
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Areas of Competence
Social Metaphysics, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy
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Education
Columbia University - PhD., (Entering class of 2022)
University of British Columbia - MA Philosophy (2022)
Simon Fraser University - B.A., Political Science (2020)​
- graduate of the French Cohort Program
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Research Grants
$80,000 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
$17,500 SSHRC CGS-M Grant​
Select Presentations
“Polite Politics”
October 2024 – Toronto Graduate Conference
“Knowledge Appropriation as Cultural Appropriation”
*Co-authored with Amogh Sahu*
October 2023 - Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference
April 2024 – Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference
January 2025 – Eastern APA Symposium
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“What kind of metaethics must the presentist have?”
January 2024 – Eastern APA Colloquium
“Gendered Material Objects”
August 2023 - Social Ontology Conference in Stockholm (ISOS)
April 2023 - Pacific APA Colloquium
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“When the Sprouts Wither: On the Mengzi-Xunzi Disagreement on Human Nature”
January 2023 - Eastern APA Colloquium as part of the ACPA
“The Harms of Mere Belief”
August 2022 -Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress poster presentation
“The Problem of Forgotten Moral Truths”
July 2022 - USC Rightness, Ignorance, Certainty and Praise Workshop
April 2022 – Pacific APA Colloquium
'Whooping Cranes on Pic Island' - Acrylic, 20x20
'Mount Ranier in Teal and Rubine' - Acrylic, 14x20
'Prairie Gold' - Acrylic, 42x30
Teaching
In addition to TAships at Columbia and UBC, I was a 2023 Teaching Fellow with the PIKSI-Boston (MIT) program for underprivileged philosophy students, where I taught a seminar titled "Confucius and Politeness Norms". I also worked as an instructor with Corrupt the Youth, a philosophy outreach program for high school students in NYC. For the 2024-2025 academic year I held a Teaching Assessment Fellowship at Columbia's Centre for Learning, where I helped develop a training program for TAs in the Chemical Engineering department. At SFU I worked as a Writing Clinic instructor at the Student Learning Commons, where I conducted individual consultations on issues with written assignments and specialized in assisting EAL students.
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Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant
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At Columbia
Ethics (2024) – with discussion section
Epistemology (2024, 2025) x2– both with discussion section
Topics in ethics: Responsibility’s Conditions, Scope, and Limits (2023)
At UBC
Business Ethics (2022)
Contemporary Moral Problems (2022)
Philosophy of Law (2022)
Introduction to Logic(2021)
Introduction to Epistemology (2020-2021) x3 – once with discussion section
Biomedical Ethics (2020)
Professional Service and Community Involvement
I am involved in numerous projects in the philosophical community at Columbia and beyond. Since 2024 I have been the lead organizer of the Non-Western Philosophy Reading Group, where I direct discussions on the Zhuangzi and the Mengzi. I also serve as Rapporteur for the Comparative Philosophy Seminar Series, and as Graduate Representative within the Philosophy department.
I have also worked for many years with Ethics Bowl Canada, where I am currently a voting member of the Advisory Committee. My primary responsibility is in case development, and since 2020 I have been Lead Writer on cases concerning tiger parenting, wet markets, AI art, value capture, the commodification of pride, etiquette, and multiculturalism in medical care. ​​​
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Conferences
Organizer - 2023 Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference Committee
​Commentator - 2023 Columbia End of Summer Workshop (Avery Archer – “On Doxastic Neutrality”)
Commentator - 2022 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (Laura Soter - “Reframing Epistemic Partiality: Acceptance and the Cognitive Work of Friendship”)
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​Reviewer - Nous
'Yukon's Cerulean Spiral' - Acrylic, 42 x 30
'Alaskan Skies' - Acrylic, 16x12
'On Bamboo Tides' - Acrylic, 16x22
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Public Philosophy
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I am passionate about writing philosophy that is engaging and accessible to a broad audience, and have works-in-progress which blur disciplinary boundaries with literary non-fiction. I am currently writing an argumentative piece on conceptualizing discursive norms in collegiate debate as analogous to rules of fair sport, rather than moral norms regulating appropriate subject matter. Under review is a travelogue-style memoir on my time in Rwanda interviewing survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, titled 'Forgiving the Man with the Machete'.
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Publications
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"Why women should rethink their love for gay male manga"
Aesthetics for Birds (February 2025)