I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Catawba College and a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Animal Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University. I specialize in environmental ethics. My research concerns the importance of the imagination in moral disagreement about animals and its role in moral change.

In the past year, I have published articles in The Journal of Animal Ethics, The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, and The Journal of Applied Ethics. This research has been informed by more than a decade of work as a grassroots animal activist.

Currently, I am working on various projects: an article on the limitations of argument as a means of persuading others of the value of animal life, an article examining attitudes of fear and hostility towards wolf reintroduction campaigns in rural US, a monograph on the current controversy over the Spanish bullfight, and am editing a collection essays with my former advisor, Deborah Slicer, on animals’ senses of humor. 

When not writing or teaching, I am either running long distances on the trails that I love, mobilizing the local vegans, distributing fresh produce weekly to low-income communities, hand-sewing my own clothes, or by my garden doing my very best to coax the worms off my kale.

I have also been known, on occasion, to write poems.