I am a justice theorist and a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Columbia University. 

Through my work, I seek to find ways to develop new theories of justice that can overcome problems from which current theories suffer. In particular, I am interested in developing theories better suited to practical applicability, providing us with specific guidance for our interactions with others, allowing us to more clearly identify the sources of injustices we face, and revealing detailed courses of action for addressing those injustices.

In both my senior honors research at Columbia College (supervised by Dr. David Johnston) and my M.A. thesis at the University of Chicago (supervised by Dr. Ben Laurence), I argued against what I take to be one of the main obstacles we face in constructing action-guiding accounts of justice: our focus on institutions as the 'primary subject' of justice. I hold that we have good reasons for developing theories that, while still accounting for the role of institutions, center on a different subject: interpersonal interactions. My current work aims to explain what such a theory would look like, setting the groundwork that will allow me to more fully develop it in my dissertation.