I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. My research is about how the law should respond to the mechanisms that generate racial, ethnic, and class-based inequality. I bring the normative and conceptual tools of analytic philosophy to bear on findings in the social sciences in a way that is designed to answer a wide range of questions under this banner. I earned my J.D. in 2017 from Stanford Law School, and in Fall 2018, I will be joining the Harvard Society of Fellows.
My primary research program examines the kinds of moral principles that ought to guide criminal law and sentencing policy in the context of stratification and inequality. A second research program deals with questions about the kinds of normative principles administrative agencies should use to guide demographic data collection, and what those principles tell us about the kinds of racial and ethnic categories that should be included on government surveys, including the federal Census.
I grew up in Boston, MA, where I attended the 1986 World Series as a newborn infant. I went to South Boston High School, and earned my B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2008 - where I completed my degree in two years. From 2008-2010, I was a student in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, where I earned my M.A. And from 2010-2012, I held a Departmental Studentship in Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where I was a member of Balliol College.
My primary research program examines the kinds of moral principles that ought to guide criminal law and sentencing policy in the context of stratification and inequality. A second research program deals with questions about the kinds of normative principles administrative agencies should use to guide demographic data collection, and what those principles tell us about the kinds of racial and ethnic categories that should be included on government surveys, including the federal Census.
I grew up in Boston, MA, where I attended the 1986 World Series as a newborn infant. I went to South Boston High School, and earned my B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2008 - where I completed my degree in two years. From 2008-2010, I was a student in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, where I earned my M.A. And from 2010-2012, I held a Departmental Studentship in Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where I was a member of Balliol College.
