I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024 and my B.A. at Michigan State University in 2017. I was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia in fall 2022. I co-organized Metaphysics in the Blue Ridge at Virginia Tech in summer 2025.

I work in metaphysics and value theory on issues related to identity and distinctness. My paper "The Identity of Necessary Indiscernibles" develops and defends novel general metaphysical explanations of identity and distinctness facts. It is forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint. In other work, I explore issues related to what makes survival distinctively and first-personally valuable, and issues arising from conflicts between the granularity of our representations of the world and the granularity of the world itself.

I believe games can be fun and pedagogically rich teaching tools that also help create an inclusive classroom, especially for neurodivergent students (https://stimpunks.org/gaming/). To promote the use of games in philosophical pedagogy, I have created a list of games for teaching philosophy.