Daniel is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Raised amidst the hills, lakes, and forests of the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire, Daniel strives to embody the live free or die ethos of his pastoral home. His decade of classroom experience includes each grade level from 5th to 12th as a humanities teacher at Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of Boston (Massachusetts). At Teachers College, Daniel aspires to conduct research on questions of rootedness with their application to curricular and pedagogical reform for the promotion of human flourishing.