Having begun my higher education at a small liberal arts college, I learned early the value of quality teaching, of teaching in ways that encourage students to have (and to voice) questions. I am honored to have gotten to work with so many insightful students, whose collaboration has made me a better teacher and scholar. I was especially honored to receive UW's inaugural William Talbott Graduate Teaching Award in 2025. In addition to enjoying the discussions that I get to facilitate with students, as well as opportunities to help them dig deeper into philosophical texts, I'm also quite passionate about teaching writing skills, and served as the graduate supervisor for the UW Philosophy Writing Center for 2022-23.
Teaching Experience
I TAd courses in three departments (Philosophy, English, and Latin) as an undergraduate at Stonehill College. At Miami University, I TAd two introductory philosophy survey courses, an introductory ethics course, and an upper-level course on Modern Philosophy.
My teaching experience since coming to UW is as follows:
As Instructor of Record**
PHIL102, Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL205, Philosophy for Children
PHIL242, Medical Ethics
PHIL301, Public Health Ethics (Lake Washington Institute of Technology)
As Teaching Assistant, with independently-facilitated discussion sections:
PHIL100, Introduction to Philosophy*
PHIL102, Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL114, Philosophical Issues in the Law
PHIL115, Practical Reasoning
PHIL120, Introduction to Logic
PHIL149, Existentialism and Film
PHIL242, Medical Ethics*
*Denotes having taught a course multiple times.
**Syllabi available upon request.
Pre-College Philosophy
I am an experienced pre-college philosophy facilitator, and have been a philosopher-in-residence in the Seattle Public Schools since 2023. The philosopher-in-residence program brings educational opportunities that are too often only available to students in 'elite' private preparatory schools to the city's public schools, thus narrowing the educational disparities that can arise in large urban school districts.
While at UW, I've also facilitated remote Philosophy for Children sessions with student-scholars in elementary, middle, and high school. This includes a number of multi-week philosophy courses, including:
Philosophy of Film (MS)
Time & Time Travel (MS)
AI, Technology, and Ethics (HS)
Truth, Opinion, and Misinformation (MS)
Philosophy of Science (MS)
General Philosophy (ES)
I am happy to chat in any capacity about my experience teaching philosophy in K-12 schools, which has given me unique insight into how students enter universities.