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New York University School of Law, New York, NY
J.D., cum laude, May 2023
Honors: Furman Academic Scholar (full-tuition merit scholarship awarded to approximately three members of entering class on basis of promise for legal academia); John Bruce Moore Award (for excellence in law and philosophy)
Activities: Teaching Assistant, Constitutional Law, Professor David Richards (Fall 2022); Staff Editor, N.Y.U. REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE (2021-2022); Research Assistant, Professor Kenji Yoshino, Summer 2021
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ph.D., Philosophy, December 2016 M.A., Philosophy, May 2012
Dissertation: Relating as Equals
Committee: Stephen Darwall (Chair), Jason Stanley, Thomas Pogge, Elizabeth Anderson
Honors: A. Bartlett Giamatti Scholar; Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society; Dissertation awarded with Distinction
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, June 2008
Honors: Highest Honors (Top 3% of class); Phi Beta Kappa
Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA
Litigation Associate, September 2025 – Present
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, MA
Law Clerk for Honorable Justice Frank M. Gaziano, August 2024 – August 2025
Allen Overy Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY
Litigation Associate, November 2023 – July 2024
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Economy, August 2018 – June 2020
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Values and Public Policy, July 2016 – June 2018
Academic (selected)
1. Freedom of Self-Expression, 31 LEGAL THEORY 4: 316-336 (2025).
2. A First Amendment Analysis of Trans-Exclusive Sports Laws, 47 N.Y.U. REVIEW OF
LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1 (2024).
3. Gentrification and Domination, 29 THE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 2: 167-87
(2020).
4. Poverty as a Social Relation, in DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY (Valentin Beck, Henning Hahn, and Robert Lepenies eds., 2020).
5. Boxed, 43 PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE 1: 229-47 (2019).
6. Disability, Democratic Equality, and Public Policy, in THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY (Annabelle Lever and Andrei Poama eds., 2018).
7. Equality of Intelligibility, in THE EQUAL SOCIETY (George Hull ed., 2015).
General Interest
1. Florida’s Anti-Gay Bill is Wrong. It’s also Unconstitutional. (March 28, 2022). NBC NEWS.
2. The Harms of Gentrification. (January 14, 2021). AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/how-does-philosophy-explain-whats-wrong-with-gentrification
1. "A Jurisprudence of Contagion." Association of Law, Culture, and Humanities Annual Meeting, DePaul University School of Law, June 17-18, 2026.
2. “Commodifying Home.” Keynote Address, Workshop on Housing and Social Justice, The University of Montreal, May 2024.
3. “Disability, Democratic Equality, and Public Policy.” Workshop on Ethics and Public Policy, The University of Oxford, June 2019.
4. “Gentrification and Domination.” Workshop on Legal and Social Equality, The University of Buenos Aires, August 2018.
5. Commentator, “State Permissions and Structural Injustice” (Larry Sager and Nelson Tebbe), Workshop on Law,Religion, and Complicity, The University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, May 2018.
6. “Poverty as a Social Relation.” Workshop on Poverty and Human Dignity, The University of Salzburg, June 2017.
7. “Expression and Recognition.” Department Colloquium, New York University Department of Philosophy, February 2016.
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