I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Law at Stanford University, where I am also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and Modern Thought and Literature. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. I am delighted to be a Clayman Faculty Research Fellow during the 2020-2021 academic year. In 2021-2022, I will be an ACLS Fellow.

I am currently writing a book, Not Just Speaking for Ourselves (under contract with Harvard University Press), about the ethics of informal political representation. To learn more about my research, watch my talk at the 2018 Harvard Horizons Symposium, listen to or read my interview on The UnMute Podcast with Myisha Cherry, or read my interview with the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in May 2018. I wrote my dissertation, Informal Political Representation: Normative and Conceptual Foundations, under the supervision of Tommie Shelby, T.M. Scanlon, Richard Moran, and Eric Beerbohm. My primary research is in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, black political thought, philosophy of race, and philosophy of law. I also work on questions in feminist philosophy, criminal law, constitutional law, bioethics, and legal ethics.

I hold a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in Philosophy and Africana Studies from New York University. I have served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Rosemary Barkett and the Honorable Judge Adalberto Jordan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and as a legal adviser to Judge Barkett on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
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​​My CV is available here.

I was born and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey, a city I love.

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