I am an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. I'm the Director of Graduate Studies for Philosophy and the Director of the Bioethics Certificate at UMSL. My monograph is entitled Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care (Lexington, 2019). I'm the co-editor of a textbook entitled Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, Eds. 5, 6, and 7 (forthcoming). 

I have interests in social and political philosophy, normative ethical theory, applied ethics with an emphasis on bioethics, and ancient Greek philosophy. I hold affiliations with the Pierre Laclede Honors College and Gender Studies at UMSL, the NextGen Precision Health Initiative at the University of Missouri system, and the MU Center for Health Ethics. 

I have won UMSL's Legendary Triton Award (2016), the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award (2018), the College of Arts and Sciences NTT Faculty Member of the Year (2019), was a University of Missouri System Presidential Engagement Fellow (2021), won the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Excellence in Teaching Award  (2024), and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching to a Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty Member (2025). 

Before joining UMSL in 2012, I was visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College.

Education

BA

[St. John's College]

MA

[WashU]

PhD

[WashU]