I was trained as a philosopher of language. Now I do administration and event coordination for a university-wide ethics center. I always volunteered for all of the administrative tasks as a graduate student, and although I also enjoyed research, I knew well before finishing my PhD that I would decide to create my own path in scholarship-adjacent administrative work instead of pursuing a typical academic career path. It sounds hokey, but I am passionate about making sure that everything is organized - whether it's philosophical argument or a budget plan or a conference schedule or guest's travel itinerary or a university center's overall operations.

Outside of my work for CEHV, I try to be active in conservation-related causes, especially on behalf of birds, including recent volunteer work with the Bird City Network, World Migratory Bird Day, and Lights Out Columbus. I also volunteer with Quiet Parks International, and I have served previous stints as a board member of various other conservation-related organizations, including the Rewilding Institute, The Ecological Citizen, Columbus Audubon, and DarkSky International's Ohio chapter. Prior to all that, I spent several years on the Executive Committee of the Basic Income Earth Network and was the lead writer for Basic Income News. 

I have lately been writing on conservation ethics for Rewilding Earth, the blog of the Rewilding Institute, and I am presently contemplating how deeply I want to mix my philosophical interests with my avian ones.