Hello! If you are on this page, you will notice that I do not have any academic affiliations (or even a complete Bachelor’s Degree). This is because I had to leave academia in 2020 due to complications from generational poverty and disabillty. I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2014-2019 towards a B.S. in Clinical and Community Psychology with a minor in Philosophy
While striving towards academic successes, my goals were and remain to be studying the Ethics of Care in Psychology. I believe that recipients of care are owed kindness, dignity, honesty, privacy, and autonomy, among other virtues. I hope that whatever …
Hello! If you are on this page, you will notice that I do not have any academic affiliations (or even a complete Bachelor’s Degree). This is because I had to leave academia in 2020 due to complications from generational poverty and disabillty. I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2014-2019 towards a B.S. in Clinical and Community Psychology with a minor in Philosophy
While striving towards academic successes, my goals were and remain to be studying the Ethics of Care in Psychology. I believe that recipients of care are owed kindness, dignity, honesty, privacy, and autonomy, among other virtues. I hope that whatever model I may one day compose, I plan do so by treating the subjects so often relegated to “edge cases” (such as the many kinds of disabled folks, sex workers, lgbtqia+ folks, the working class, and racial minorities) as my divining guides through the trenches of moral ambiguities in virtue ethics.
The body of people seeking care from the realms of Clinical Psychology more often than not inhabit one or more intersections of these above identities. My impression of the current state of psychology is one of treating these characteristics as exceptions rather than norms, which in my personal experience greatly limits the quality of care received. I hope that one day, by hybridizing my incomplete studies in virtue ethics and clinical psychology, I can contribute to the practicum and study of psychology for the potential benefit of all who receive psychological/psychiatric care.
Some other multi-disciplinary and academic interests I have accrued in the intervening years include:
- Library and Information Sciences
- Censorship and Law in Libraries, specifically within the Mississippi Valley Library District
- tracking and identifying key players in said local political efforts towards censorship and corruption
- Mutual Aid and Community Gardening Efforts
- I hope to become a Master Gardener inside of the next year and with that follow through on my following interests:
- Volunteership in community gardens, greenways, etc for mutual aid within the food deserts of St Clair County, Illinois
- Local Native American foodways, native food sovereignty, and rematriation of ancestral plant varietals to descendants of the land I live on
- Growing fiber and dye crops in addition to food crops for personal use
- Birdwatching
- the Mississippi Migration Flyway, the center of which is around my home city of St Louis
- statistical analysis of the seasonal migrations of protected fauna through/around Gaza and broader Palestine before and during bombardment
- Fiber Arts and “Distaff” Craftsmanship
- Embroidery
- Linen and wool production
- Natural dye production and use
- Sewing and garment construction
PhilPapers wants me to include my publications; Alas I have none. I have spent the past 5 years working blue-collar jobs in a bid to stay alive, including currently working as a school bus driver. The past year that I’ve spent behind the wheel of a bus has left me a lot of time to ruminate, rolling up and down the very flat state of Illinois, without any distraction allowed. Thus I return to the field of Philosophy with a renewed interest.
