Service

I’m the current Colloquium Coordinator at Harvard, and I also served on the Admissions Committee in 2023.

At USC I was on the Colloquium Committee, the Climate Committee, and the Grad Committee, and was also an Area Editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

In the second half of 2020 I led an anti-racism discussion group for members of November Project Brooklyn and November Project New York. NPBK and NPNYC are free outdoor fitness clubs that were a huge source of community for me during my time in New York City, so that was my way of giving back and pushing forward. If you want more info (e.g. if you’d like to create a similar group), shoot me an email.

I was Chair of the APA's inaugural Graduate Student Council. The GSC’s job is to report to the APA's board of officers on matters of interest or concern to graduate students in Philosophy. My term on the Council began on July 1 2017 and continued until June 2019, with my term as Chair ending in June 2018.

The GSC has a lot of great initiatives in the works, and I strongly encourage everyone to check out their website and like their Facebook page.

I co-founded the Michigan High School Ethics Bowl in 2013 and co-organized it until the end of my PhD in 2018. We (i.e. the UM Philosophy graduate students) work with a local community organization called A2Ethics and with ~20 high schools across Michigan to arrange out-of-school Philosophy coaching sessions, delivered by UM graduate students and professional philosophers from other HE institutions, discussing a set of “case studies” written by local people about moral issues that arise in their daily lives. We also organize three annual events: the Kickoff, the Bowl, and the Symposium. In the 2014-15 academic year I was awarded an $8,000 grant by UM's Rackham Program in Public Scholarship for Ethics Bowl.

Here's a promotional video we made about the Ethics Bowl back in 2015.

Here are me and the formidable Jeanine DeLay, President of A2Ethics, on Michigan Radio talking about the Bowl.

Here's an edu-taining instructional video for Ethics Bowl judges made by the UM Outreach team in 2016.

I have a set of coaching materials that I made for the Michigan Bowl, and that everyone else running Ethics Bowls worldwide is welcome to use. Email me for it.

I was a Graduate Assistant for PIKSI Rock 2016. This involved attending classes and running advice sessions for sixteen students who are members of groups historically under-represented in academic Philosophy, and then leading a small discussion section, writing and grading assignments, and offering writing tips and general mentoring for four of these students. My PIKSI mentees are awesome and I’m sure I’ll be bragging about them here in no time. :)

I've done a few other service things. Details are on my CV, which you can find on the ‘About’ page.