I am a third-year PhD student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an incoming JD candidate at the Yale Law School. My research interests are in law and philosophy. My topical interests are in jurisprudence and social epistemology; I focus on how non-citizens are excluded from epistemic practices in law, political discourse, and the press. I also do work on authority and philosophy of practical reason. I have auxiliary interests in philosophy of race as well.
The above interests motivate two projects I am working on. For one project, I'm working on a paper that explicates the c…
I am a third-year PhD student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an incoming JD candidate at the Yale Law School. My research interests are in law and philosophy. My topical interests are in jurisprudence and social epistemology; I focus on how non-citizens are excluded from epistemic practices in law, political discourse, and the press. I also do work on authority and philosophy of practical reason. I have auxiliary interests in philosophy of race as well.
The above interests motivate two projects I am working on. For one project, I'm working on a paper that explicates the concept of illegalization, which I define as the legal-institutional processes that render people illegal by positioning those illegalized as less-than-capable knowers in the law. In another project, I am working on how misinformation in political discourse presents an existential threat to democracy.
In addition to academic writing, I have written or been otherwise featured in publications such as the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the Berkeley Blog, among others.
I currently live in Berkeley with my cats, Marlo and Langshaw, as well as my partner Bianca (also a philosopher).
