I am primarily interested in topics related to pain and health disparities that lie at the intersection of philosophy of mind, social epistemology, bioethics, and race.
Journal Publications
"Black Women and 'Doing' Pain: An Insurgent Act," American Philosophical Quarterly (Special Issue on Contemporary Issues in Black Philosophy), forthcoming.
"Cure but Not Cured: Gene-Editing Therapy and The Ethics of Framing Language for Transforming Sickle Cell Disease," (with Shameka Poetry Thomas, Kristin Seastrand, and Consuela Albright), Hastings Center Report, forthcoming.
"Pain Dismissal and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice," Hypatia, 1-17, 2025.
"Sharing Pain: A Hybrid Expressivist Account," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 102(3): 808-822. 2024.
"'Just' a Painful Period: A Philosophical Perspective Review of the Dismissal of Menstrual Pain," Womens Health (London), 20:1-6. 2024.
"Screening Out Neurodiversity," (with Craig Callendar) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 33(1): 21-54. 2023.
"MPQ Descriptors as a Pain Pidgin Language," Journal of Hospital Ethics, 8(1): 85-89. 2022.
"Acknowledging the Burdens of 'Blackness,'" (with Nneka Sederstrom) HEC Forum, 33: 19-33. 2021.
Projects in Progress
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Special Issue on Chronic Pain & Social Justice), co-edited with Daniel Buchman
Taking Pain Dismissal Seriously Book Manuscript (under contract with OUP)