I am the Associate Director for Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives in Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education. In this role, I direct Fordham’s interdisciplinary Master of Arts Program in Ethics and Society and undergraduate Bioethics minor.

My main academic research program identifies theoretical and practical implications of the profound racial injustice within American policing and punishment. Alongside this work, I also maintain a research program in metaethics and moral psychology on moral motivation and the nature of desire. Beyond research, I have strong interests in public philosophy. I specialize in developing public-facing and university-facing programming that promotes ethical literacy and moral engagement for a variety of audiences. Over the years, I have regularly participated in philosophy and ethics discussions with young children, high school students, youth offenders, GED students, college students, university faculty, and residents of retirement communities.

I was previously a Teaching Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Outreach Director for UNC's Philosophy Outreach Program and the Parr Center for Ethics.  Before that, I was the Assistant Director of the Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, and my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Minnesota.