I am a Doctoral Candidate (ABD) in Philosophy at Emory University (Atlanta, USA) and the Partnerships and Community Relations Officer of the Canadian Bioethics Society / Société canadienne de bioétique (CBS/SCB). My current research engages Aristotle’s ethics, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and bioethics to propose a model of empathy as a form of ethical expertise. More broadly, my research interests concern embodiment and intersubjectivity, the philosophy of emotions, experiences of health and illness, ethics (esp. Aristotelian ethics), and phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty).

I have an MA in Philosophy from Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, ON), for which my Master’s Major Research Paper proposed an intersubjective conception of pain experiences on the basis of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological philosophy of embodiment. I received my BA (Honours) in Contemporary Studies & History from the University of King’s College (Halifax, NS).

My CV can be found here.

When I’m not reading & writing, I can usually be found cooking, sewing, or making overly aspirational to-do lists. I have also designed posters for philosophy events, and I recently attempted a carpentry project (it was humbling).