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I am an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University (2013-14). I work in normative and practical ethics, as well as bioethics. Much of my work stems from my dissertation, The Duty to Adopt, where I argued that prospective parents have a moral duty, akin to the duty to rescue, to adopt children rather than procreate. Through this project, I have research interests in population ethics (the area of inquiry that explores the ethical value of adding lives to the world), moral demands and moral options, and the moral significance of the genetic relationship. I also work in bioethics, having spent two years in a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Bioethics Department (2011-2013). My work in bioethics focuses on the duty to rescue as it applies to clinical researchers working in low resource settings and to the wider health care context. I received my PhD in Philosophy at Yale University in 2011.