I am an Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Division of Bioethics within the College of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Education and Anatomy. As a political theorist/bioethicist specializing in democratic theory and moral and political philosophy, my work engages with normative, conceptual, institutional, regulatory, and legal questions in science, medicine, and technology. My main areas of focus are exploring role of democratic deliberation when regulating new and emerging technologies; the concern of exploitation in human subject research and labor; and the complexities of consent in a variety of domains, including governance, relationships, and clinical research trials and biobanks. Other topics of inquiry include gestational surrogacy, gene editing, newborn screening, and prenatal testing.
At OSU, I also serve on the steering committee for the Center for Ethics in Human Values, as an Affiliated Faculty for the Democracy Institute, an organizer of the Reproductive Justice Cluster at the FREE Center, and, delightedly, coach OSU’s inaugural Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Team.
Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy (2020-2023), an AI Initiative Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (2019-2020), and received my PhD from Yale University’s Department of Political Science (2015-2019).