About Us

Helena de Bres, the host and administrative director for 2025, is a Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. She researches philosophy of literature and moral philosophy, writes philosophical creative nonfiction, and teaches moral, political and legal philosophy. She is the author of Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and How To Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Alex Guerrero, the program coordinator for 2025, is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works on a variety of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, and epistemology (particularly social epistemology). He has interests in African Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, and Native American Philosophy. 

Candice Delmas is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University jointly appointed in the Departments of Philosophy and Religion and Political Science. She works in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. She is the author of A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford University Press, 2018). 

Gina Schouten is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She teaches a variety of classes in ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, feminism, and educational ethics. She has written about political liberalism and political legitimacy, egalitarian justice, education, and the gendered division of labor. She has ongoing projects on equal educational opportunity, sectoral justice more broadly, and liberal egalitarian theory.

Nancy Bauer is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University. Her interests include methodology in philosophy, feminism, metaphysics, social/political/moral philosophy, philosophy of language, phenomenology, and philosophy in film. She is currently writing a book that is equal parts a philosophical meditation on the nature of higher education and a dean confidential.