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Hello! I am a philosopher pursuing my Ph.D. at McGill University and my S.M. at Harvard University.

I'm also a Fellow-in-Residence in Constitutional Studies at the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds, a Research Fellow in Political Philosophy with Montreal's Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP), and an inaugural fellow of McGill's new Philosophy, Technology, & Policy Lab (where I am the editor of The Normative Network, the lab's ideas forum). I am also an affiliated Member in Ethics & Economics at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ).

My main research interests are moral, legal, & political philosophy (including normative economics), as well as their intersections. My work focuses primarily on related questions about distributive justice, equality, fairness, sovereignty, and rights. A central idea of my research is that norms (whether moral, political, or legal) are grounded in respective accounts of what the constitutive features of agency for those undertakings are; just as to be a chess player is to be bound by the norms of chess, so too is true of being a person, a citizen, and even a state.

Before joining McGill and Harvard, I was a Fellow at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics from 2022 to 2023. Here, I also received my B.A. in philosophy. 

My favourite philosophers (in no particular order) are Kant, Rawls, Korsgaard, Zhuangzi, and Kierkegaard.