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* invited; † COVID-19 cancellations

TBA
  • Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 2026-2027 *
  • Political Epistemology Workshop, Princeton University, April 2026 *​
  • Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, March 2026 *

“Representation and Precedent”
  • Conference on the Theory of Agency Relationships, UC Irvine School of Law, April 2026 *

“Writers Are Not Congressmen”
  • Queen's University Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, Queen's University, November 2025 *
  • NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy, New York University, November 2025 *
  • Stanford Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, October 2023 *
  • Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, October 2023 *
  • International Social Ontology Society Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2023
  • Moral and Political Philosophy Work in Progress Group, May 2023
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2022
  • Politics, Philosophy & Economics Workshop on Race and PPE, New Orleans, LA, October 2022 *

"The Duties of Informal Political Representatives"
  • Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz, May 2025 *
  • Keynote Address, Participation, Informality, and Representation Workshop, Université de Montréal, March 2025 *
  • Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, February 2025 *
  • Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, New York University, February 2025 *
  • Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, January 2025 *

"Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation"
  • Race, Politics, and Ethics Workshop, Arizona State University, May 2025 *
  • Marist University, March 2025 *
  • Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, ​Harvard University, March 2025 *
  • LSE Political Philosophy Seminar, London School of Economics, February 2025 *
  • Nuffield Workshop in Political Theory, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, February 2025 *
  • APA Eastern, Invited Book Symposium, New York, NY, January 2025 *
  • Epistemology, Ethics & Politics of Diversity Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy, November 2024 *
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, Author Meets Critics Panel, New Orleans, LA, November 2024
  • APSA Annual Meeting, Author Meets Critics Panel, Philadelphia, PA, September 2024
  • Temple University Department of Philosophy and Public Policy Lab, Philadelphia, PA, September 2024 *
  • Yale Center for Law and Philosophy, Yale University, November 2023 *
  • Political Theory Workshop, UC Berkeley, March 2023 *
  • Kadish Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory, UC Berkeley, October 2022 *
  • Manuscript Review Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, December 2021
  • Dartmouth Economics and Philosophy Summer Workshop, Dartmouth University, August 2020 * †

“Speaking for Others From the Bench”
  • APA Pacific, Berger Memorial Prize Symposium, April 2025 *​
  • Harvard Law and Philosophy Workshop, Harvard Law School, March 2025 *
  • APSA Annual Meeting,  Zoom, August 2023
  • Legal Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, November 2022 *
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2022
  • Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence Conference, Brasenose College, Oxford University, July 2022
  • Judges and Representation Conference, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, June 2020 * 

"Descriptive and Nondescriptive Informal Political Representation" (Chapter 6 of Speaking for Others)
  • IDEA Research Seminar, University of Leeds, February 2024 * 
  • Annual Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, October 2022 *

"You Say I Want a Revolution"
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2023
  • Moral and Political Philosophy Work in Progress Group, October 2023

“Why Should Those Who Speak for Us Be Anything Like Us?”
  • Constructing Social Hierarchies Workshop, University of Melbourne, July 2022 *
  • Philosophy Desert Workshop, Moab, UT, April 2022 *
  • APA Pacific, NASSP Panel, Vancouver, BC, April 2022 *
  • Philosophy Department Colloquium, UC Davis, April 2022 *
  • Center of Linguistics and Language Sciences, University of Lausanne, April 2022 *
  • The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar, Institute of Philosophy – London, May 2021 *
  • Rutgers Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Rutgers University, March 2021 *
  • Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, December 2020 *
  • Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, December 2020 *
 
“Expertise and Representative Deference” (Chapter 7 of Speaking for Others)
  • Values in Science and Political Philosophy Conference, Claremont McKenna College, March 2022 *
 
“Judicial Representation”
  • Legal Theory Workshop, University of Virginia, April 2021 *
  • Legal Philosophy Workshop, June 2020
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2019 *
  • Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, June 2018
 
“Democracy Within, Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Political Representatives”
  • Stanford Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, September 2020 *
  • UCLA Legal Theory Workshop, UCLA, April 2020 *
  • Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, January 2019 *
  • Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, January 2019 *
  • California Philosophy Workshop, Malibu, CA, October 2018 *
  • The New York City Minorities and Philosophy Workshop, NYU, May 2018
  • Princeton Workshop in Social Philosophy, Princeton University, February 2018
  • Symposium, APA Central, Chicago, IL, February 2018
  • Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference, University of Tampa, October 2017
  • Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Annual Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL, October 2017
  • APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2017 *
  • Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, June 2017
  • Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, February 2017
  • Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, January 2017 *
  • Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, January 2017 *
 
“The Conscription of Informal Political Representatives”
  • Stanford Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, May 2020 *
  • PPE Workshop, Political Economy Department, King’s College London, May 2020 * †
  • Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego, April 2020 *
  • Public Philosophy Network, APA Pacific, April 2020 * †
  • Department of Philosophy, UC Merced, November 2019 *
  • Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference, University of British Columbia, August 2019
  • Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, June 2019 *
  • Bechtel Workshop, Northwestern University, September 2018 *
  • Rights and Wrongs Conference, San Francisco State University, September 2018
  • Economics and Philosophy Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, August 2018 *
  • ConceptLab, University of Oslo, June 2018 *

“The Limits of Similitude and Deference: Reexamining Core Principles of Representation”
  • Gender, Race, and Sexuality Seminar, Philosophy, University of Barcelona, June 2019
  • Stanford Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Conference, Stanford University, April 2019
  • PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2019
  • North American Society for Social Philosophy, San Francisco, CA, July 2019
 
“Race and Representation”
  • Race and Representation course, Hackensack High School, Hackensack, NJ, June 2020 *
 
“Faceless Witnesses and the Frustration of Due Process”
  • ConceptLab, University of Oslo, January 2019 *

“When Academic Freedom Becomes Responsibility: Spokespersonship and Scholarship”
  • APA Pacific, San Diego, CA, March 2018 *
 
“Free Speech/Hate Speech” with Ronni Gura Sadovsky    
  • MIT Day of Action, MIT, April 2017
 
“Why Stop Snitching? Morally Evaluating Confidential Informants”
  • Harvard-Edinburgh Legal Theory Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, February 2017
  • Legal Philosophy Workshop, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, June 2016
  • Police, Prisons, & Power Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2013
 
“Informal Political Representation and the Possibility of Democratic Legitimacy”
  • Philosophy of ‘Race’ and Racism Conference, University of Oxford, June 2016
  • UCLA Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference, UCLA, April 2016
 
Invited Discussant
  • Robert Talisse, Lindner Lecture on academic freedom, The College of Wooster, October 2025
  • Alex Guerrero, Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections, APA Pacific, Author Meets Critics Panel, San Francisco, CA, April 2025
  • Anca Gheaus, "Feminism Within Public Reason," Fourth Annual Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Dartmouth Ethics Institute, April 2023
  • Michele Moody-Adams, Making Space for Justice, APA Eastern, Author Meets Critics Panel, Montreal, Canada, January 2023
  • Jake Monaghan, “Policing Ourselves," Stanford Ethics Center Junior Scholars Workshop, May 2021
  • Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc, “Objectification and Domination," Bay Area Feminism and Philosophy Workshop, May 2019
  • Peter Railton, “A Convenient Truth? Subjective Well-Being and Global Climate Change," NUSTEP Keynote, Northwestern University, May 2019
  • Colin Bossen, “The Populist Imagination: A White Man’s Republic," The Minns Lectures, Boston, MA, April 2019
  • Christopher Lewis, “Inequality, Risk, and the Principles of Punishment," Workshop on Law and Philosophy, Stanford University, December 2018
  • Amy Berg, “Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice," Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, University of Utah, June 2017
  • Lee-Ann Chae, “Hoping for Peace," Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, University of Utah, June 2017
  • Joseph Frigault, “Fair Play, White Privilege, and Black Reparations," APA Pacific, Seattle, WA, April 2017
  • Freeman and Stewart, “Microaggressions in Clinical Medicine," APA Eastern, Baltimore, MD, January 2017
  • Karl Schafer, “Rationality as the Capacity for Understanding,” Midsummer Philosophy Workshop, Cambridge University, June 2016

​Invited Panelist
  • Law in the Public Interest, Stanford Women in Law, Stanford University, February 2021
  • New Perspectives in Critical Race Scholarship, CCSRE, Stanford University, February 2020
  • Ask a Philosopher, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, November 2018
  • Philosophy in an Inclusive Key (PIKSI), Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, June 2017
  • Censorship in South Florida & Beyond, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, August 2016
  • Feminist Philosophy and Essentialism Conference, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, July 2012
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  • Book
  • CV
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  • My Dog