I work in ethics and social philosophy. I research the philosophy of need and felt necessity, the meta-ethics of social critique (especially pertaining to experience and emotion), and trans philosophy. In my dissertation, I explore need as a core concept of moral practice and articulate the subjective and moral epistemic value of felt necessity. My arguments weave through studies of gender transition and articulate the relationship between transition and need.

I am a PhD candidate (ABD, defending 2026) and Forrest S. Crawford Fellow at the Rock Ethics Institute (2024—2025) at the Philosophy department at Penn State University. 2023—2025, I am a research associate at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. 2024—2026, I am a visiting student at the University of Guelph.

I am one of two graduate assistants for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), and I am a member of the APA Eastern Division.

I completed my BA (Hons.) in Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

I'm a lifelong athlete, having played semi-pro soccer in early adulthood, and transitioned into bouldering and lifting now. Everywhere I've lived I've had a fermentation station, featuring kombucha, tempeh, sourdough, lacto-ferments of various kinds, and cheese. I am rarely more excited than when I spot a morel (Morchella esculenta in particular).


The header image is by Korean painter Nam Kyung-Min, called Working on the Mindscape (2011). See more of her work here.