I am a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. 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.

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.

Before coming to Harvard, I was a J.D. student at Stanford Law School and a Ph.D student in Stanford's Department of Philosophy, where I pursued the two degrees simultaneously. My Ph.D. supervisor was Debra Satz. I earned my B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University, and did two years of postgraduate work at Balliol College, Oxford University under the supervision of Adam Swift.