Professionalization & Publications

My paper "Resisting Reclamation" explores the hierarchies inherent in online discourses about cognitive, psychiatric, and intellectual disabilities. In the paper, published in Social Epistemology, I argue that the r-slur functions differently than non-disability slurs because the slurred characteristic precludes some of the "slurred group" from participating in its reclamation. 

Published in AJOB Neuroscience, "Neuro-Neutrality & Mere-Difference" argues (contra de Vries [2024]) that rendering states neuro-neutral requires adopting a decidedly non-neutral view of neurodivergence. 

At 4S Seattle in 2025, I presented a paper exploring the use of literacy metaphors in conversations about artificial intelligence in education. My talk spurred a conversation about how educators can ensure that conversations about AI 'literacy' don't come to supplant those about traditional literacy. 

I've published reviews of the above books in AJOB Neuroscience and the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. 

Since June 2023, I have been a communications RA at the BKC. In this role, I have learned how to adapt complex scholarship about internet governance, AI, digital safety, and more into different formats for a wide audience. 

I taught Medical Ethics in 2024, and will again in the coming summer. My STSS training has given me the resources to strengthen my units on language in medicine, biotechnologies, and research ethics. My teaching accomplishments led to my winning the Philosophy Department's William Talbott Graduate Teaching Award. 

In 2025, while working as the UW Program on Ethics' Research Assistant, I helped organized and served as a commentator on the inaugural Space Ethics Conference.