I work in ethics and social-political philosophy. I research the philosophy of need and felt necessity, experience and emotion in social critique, and trans philosophy. In my dissertation, I explore need as a core concept of moral practice and articulate the subjective value and moral significance 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 served as one of two graduate assistants for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) from 2023 to 2025. 

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.