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Beginning September 2025, I will serve as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In Fall 2025, I will also be an Adjunct Lecturer at New York University. Prior to these positions, from 2023 to 2025, I was a Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. I earned my PhD in philosophy from the University of Washington in 2023.
My research examines how social and political forces shape the categories, methods, and practices of medicine and public health. Working at the intersection of feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of science, I engage debates in bioethics to show how seemingly objective medical concepts and trial designs often entrench oppression and inequity. I analyze cases ranging from the medical model of “obesity” and the ethics of deep brain stimulation, to weight stigma in environmental bioethics, to the design and implementation of pragmatic clinical trials. Across these domains, I develop empirically informed philosophical critiques that expose flawed assumptions and propose frameworks that promote justice in health research and care. |