AREA OF SPECIALIZATION 
Ethics (Indigenous Ethics, Climate Ethics), Social & Political Philosophy (Phil of Gender, Race, Indigeneity), Philosophy of Education 
AREA OF COMPETENCE
History of Philosophy, Critical Pedagogy, Feminist Social Epistemology,  Queer & Trans Philosophy


OTHER AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE
English Literature, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Sámi languages

PUBLICATIONS 
Refereed Journal Articles 
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In Print
2024. "Surely, you don't mean rocks": Indigenous Kinship Ethics, Moral Responsibility and So-called 'Natural Objects.' In Studies on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy, 24:1, 19-26.
2024. “Teachers as Housewives and the Covid19 Pandemic.” In Hypatia. Spring, 2024. Published online 2024:1-8. doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.103
2023. “Rethinking a History of Environmental Ethics” with Ryan Mulloy. In Studies on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy, 23:1, 8-11. 
2019. “Gender-as-Lived: The Coloniality of Gender in Schools and Listening in to Complicated Moments of Resistance, a phenomenological study.” in Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 19:1, 43-51. 

Forthcoming
2025. Moral Problems of Mining Indigenous Lands for the Green Transition. In AlterNative. 
2025. “A Year of Nonbinary Philosophy” with Manon Andre De St. Amant & Ray Pederson. UnderReview.
2025. “Teacher-Objects and the ‘I don’t know’ mentality.” In Urban Education (Special Issue): “I can’t breathe”: Police killings of black men and the quest for justice of black boys in school. Forthcoming.
2026. “What is Indigenous Kinship Ethics?: Visibilizing Indigenous Kinship Ethics in the Discipline of Philosophy.” In Relational Ethics. Springer. Forthcoming.

Manuscripts in Submission 
"Alcibiades, My Beloved: Teaching philosophy as love and a re-reading of Plato's symposium."
“To Whom We Are Responsible: A Metaphysics of Morals on How Relations Determine Moral Community Membership.” Under Review.
“Intrapersonal Resistance: The Moral Responsibility of Oppressed Subjects to Resist their Own Internalized Oppression.” Under Review.


In Progress
​What do I owe to an entity? Kinship Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. In development. 
Free Will in Indigenous Existential Thought. In development.

AWARDS 
​National
2022.     Mellon/ACLS Faculty Fellowship for international research 
2021.     Fulbright Research Fellowship in Philosophy (Semi-Finalist) 
Institutional
2025. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota.
2025. Swenson-Kierkegaard Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2025. Douglas E Lewis Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota 
2024.   US/Ed Fellowship for Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
2023.    Boreal Sustainability Leader, Institute for the Environment Research Hub, UMN
2022.     Douglas E Lewis Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota 
​2020.    Leadership, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (LEID) Dissertation Fellowship 
2020.     Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle Award 
2020.     Thank a Teacher Teaching Award, University of Minnesota 
2019.     Critically-Oriented Teacher Education Fellowship, University of Minnesota
2019.     Graduate fellow at Lives worth Living, Philosophy department, University of Minnesota
2019.     “Innovator and Doer” Award, Metro Schools College Prep, Minneapolis 
2018.     Teacher of the Year Award, Metro Schools College Prep, Minneapolis
2015.     James Patterson Fellowship, University of San Francisco
2015.    Diversity Scholarship Award, University of San Francisco
2015.    Research Development Travel Grant to Melbourne, Australia, U of San Francisco
2014.    James Patterson Fellowship, University of San Francisco
2011.    Resident fellow at Lives worth Living, Philosophy department, University of Minnesota

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