I am Associate Director for Content Strategy and Engagement at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. There, I direct the Institute’s digital strategy, encompassing all our platforms, services, and experiences, and curate the Institute’s physical and exhibition spaces, as well as leading various other national engagement initiatives and partnerships. I also teach in the Department of Philosophy at DePauw.

Beyond my work at DePauw, I serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and as Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Philosophy. I also sit on the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Council and Steering Committee and the National High School Ethics Bowl Advisory Board. I am an affiliated Research Fellow of the Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Mississippi. As of January 2027, I will begin serving as Editor In Chief of Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum.

Working at the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of education, I consider myself a teacher at heart, and an advocate for public and pre-college philosophy pedagogy. My research interests are varied, but as of late I am thinking and writing about issues in democratic civic education, the development of moral and intellectual virtues, and creative ways of combining ethics pedagogy with teaching and learning in fine arts disciplines. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2021, where I taught for many years and wrote a dissertation on the virtue of civility and its role in the non-ideal politics of democratic societies.

In my spare time, I am an amateur saxophonist and a hobbyist sound designer, and am often thinking about creative ways to merge these pursuits. In my local community, I have served on the Board of Directors at Indy Pride since 2025, where I advise on organizational governance, develop arts and culture partnerships, and curate and host PrideReads, a monthly book club focused on queer literature and LGBT+ authors.