I am the son of working-class Filipino immigrants and a first-generation college student. Coming from San Diego, CA, my college education started in a small community college, where I discovered my love for philosophy. I transferred to University of California, San Diego and earned a BA in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. I worked in various coffeeshops and completed a year-long Americorps service with READ/San Diego before entering the MA program in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. I studied with amazing philosopher-mentors, like Anita Silvers and Shelley Wilcox, and graduated with distinction. Soon after, I entered the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Washington, where I am presently a PhD Candidate, a member of the Neuroethics Thrust at the Center for Neurotechnology, and affiliate member of the UW Disability Studies Program.
My research work considers a spectrum of topics in social and political philosophy, medical ethics, neuroethics, philosophy of disability, critical prison studies, and philosophy of place and migration, especially in the lacunae where these fields of inquiry are intricately entangled. My dissertation defends the “mere-difference view” of disability from charges that it leads to objectionable implications in healthcare justice. I am also currently writing on health equity, the ethics of neuroenhancements as a means of addressing injustices, gentrification, sanctuary cities, and philosophy and prisons.
I regularly teach philosophy at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), as part of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) in-prison college program. I also taught in San Francisco State University and Bellevue College. I served as a TA at the University of Washington, where I received the UW Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award.
I am also committed to doing “public philosophy.” In collaboration with FEPPS, I organize the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in WCCW. Also, with Anna Bates, we will be designing and running a seminar series with incarcerated students that explore the role of prison in the history of philosophy, as part of the Mellon Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities. As a member of the Neuroethics Thrust, I facilitate ethics roundtables with researchers in different neurotechnology centers. I also served as the proud coach of the Lake Washington High School ethics bowl team.
My research work considers a spectrum of topics in social and political philosophy, medical ethics, neuroethics, philosophy of disability, critical prison studies, and philosophy of place and migration, especially in the lacunae where these fields of inquiry are intricately entangled. My dissertation defends the “mere-difference view” of disability from charges that it leads to objectionable implications in healthcare justice. I am also currently writing on health equity, the ethics of neuroenhancements as a means of addressing injustices, gentrification, sanctuary cities, and philosophy and prisons.
I regularly teach philosophy at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), as part of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) in-prison college program. I also taught in San Francisco State University and Bellevue College. I served as a TA at the University of Washington, where I received the UW Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award.
I am also committed to doing “public philosophy.” In collaboration with FEPPS, I organize the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in WCCW. Also, with Anna Bates, we will be designing and running a seminar series with incarcerated students that explore the role of prison in the history of philosophy, as part of the Mellon Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities. As a member of the Neuroethics Thrust, I facilitate ethics roundtables with researchers in different neurotechnology centers. I also served as the proud coach of the Lake Washington High School ethics bowl team.
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