I am currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Texas A&M University. I have an MA in English (also from Texas A&M), and a MA in Environmental Philosophy (from The University of Montana). My dissertation, Imagining Animals Differently, explores the importance of the imagination for understanding moral disagreement about animals and for developing techniques according to which we may change society for the better. I have been most influenced in my work (and my life) by the philosopher Iris Murdoch. 

Following in the tradition of Socrates and Thoreau, I take it to be my responsibility as a philosopher to act in the world and fight to make it better. To this end, I have been intimately involved in grassroots animal advocacy for the past decade. I  find that my research in philosophy strengthens my activism, that my experiences as an activist inform and direct my research. 

I now live in Austin, Texas. When not writing, I am either running long distances on the trails that I love, mobilizing the local vegans, helping to distribute food weekly to those who need it, hand-sewing my own clothes, or by my garden doing my very best to coax the worms off my kale.