I am a former public interest environmental litigator (JD '23, Harvard Law School) and incoming fellow in the Sentient Futures AIxAnimals program whose work focuses on entangled empathy, embodiment, and interspecies justice. As a litigator, I specialized in pesticide regulation, endangered species protection, and NEPA compliance — experience that grounds my current scholarship in the material realities of how legal systems mediate human-nonhuman relationships.

My article, "Toward Interspecies Reproductive Justice" (Vol. 32.1 of the Animal Law Review), argues that any true sense of reproductive justice must necessarily include nonhuman animals, using embodiment theory as the basis for moral consideration. I am now a doctoral student in the University of Michigan's joint PhD in English and Women's and Gender Studies, working to develop more imaginative, humanistic understandings of law and power — and to challenge the institutional narratives that legal mechanisms sustain. My research examines how literary texts, particularly Victorian Gothic literature, preserve embodied and somatic ways of knowing that legal discourse systematically excludes.

I believe that the project of moral circle expansion requires not only philosophical argument but richer vocabularies for recognizing nonhuman experience — vocabularies that literature and the humanities are uniquely positioned to offer. I write about these intersections on my Substack, Alive Together.

I am always looking to connect with people thinking seriously about nonhuman moral status, animal welfare policy, and moral circle expansion — particularly those interested in how frameworks beyond analytic philosophy might contribute to these projects. If you work at the intersection of law and animal advocacy, or if you're exploring how embodiment, affect, or narrative shape our ethical obligations to nonhuman animals, I'd love to be in conversation.

I'm also an early-career scholar entering a field where EA-aligned perspectives are underrepresented. If you have experience navigating academia while doing work connected to effective altruism or animal welfare, I'd welcome your insight on building a research agenda that speaks to both scholarly and advocacy communities.

I bring a somewhat unusual combination of legal training and humanities scholarship that I'm happy to share. If you're working on animal welfare policy, environmental regulation, or interspecies ethics and want to think through the legal dimensions — whether that's how existing regulatory frameworks actually operate, how NEPA and the Endangered Species Act function in practice, or how legal language shapes what counts as a recognizable harm — I'm glad to help.

More broadly, I'm interested in helping EA engage more deeply with the humanities. If you're writing or thinking about moral circle expansion and want to explore how literature, feminist theory, or embodiment frameworks might strengthen your argument or open new lines of inquiry, reach out. I write about these questions regularly on my Substack, Alive Together, and I'm always happy to exchange ideas.