I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, and realized my passion for philosophy — thinking about big ideas — sometime between high school and early college. I took an intro class at the University of Florida that hooked me, and I haven't looked back since. When I transferred to Florida State, it was only a semester or two before I dropped my Communication major and switched to Philosophy with a Comm minor.

I went on to write an honors thesis on desert in wages, which sprang out of a final paper for political philosophy class.

I am interested in pursuing work in ethics, particularly consequentialism, desert, and political philosophy. I am especially interested in topics in economic justice, as my undergraduate thesis would suggest, including the correlation between popular intuitions about economic desert and the operation of the market and government institutions. I would also enjoy pursuing socio-political topics such as healthcare, taxation and redistribution, and public education. The topics of avoiding war, placing restraints on its conduct, and the enforcement of any such restraints interest me deeply, and I feel they are of growing importance in our globalizing world.

When I'm not doing philosophy, I'm reading books on political and historical matters, freelancing in graphic design and web design, getting into biking and hiking, or hanging out at the Catacombs or the Sundown Saloon.

I enjoy good philosophy, good friends, good conversation, good jokes, and a good drink every now and then.