Hello/Bures!
I'm currently a tenured Professor of Philosophy at North Hennepin Community College in the Twin Cities (MN).

I work in Ethics and Social Philosophy, particularly on Indigenous Kinship Ethics as a major normative theory. Overall, the core theses defended in my primary research program are that a) Indigenous Kinship Ethics is a normative ethical theory akin to deontology or consequentialism which has a significant historical archive and whereby an action is good or bad according to how that action cultivates or severs relations of reciprocity and dignity, and b) that according to Indigenous Kinship Ethics, humans have direct moral obligations to non-humans, including so-called ‘natural objects’ and the environment. My secondary research program lies at the intersection of practical ethics and philosophy of gender, including epistemic oppression due to gender prejudices.

I hold a PhD in Culture + Teaching (doctoral minor in Philosophy), as well as an MA in Philosophy, from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Teaching from the University of San Francisco, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. I am also currently working on my second PhD in Philosophy (doctoral minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies), also from the University of Minnesota. I taught high school English for ten years in Oakland, California and Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

In addition to my work as a philosopher, I love to garden and work on projects with my wife, kid, friends, neighbors, and pets. I am a heritage learner of the Sámi language (north dialect). I live in South Minneapolis near Bde Maka Ska and Lake Harriet. 
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