I am a graduate student in philosophy at Central European University in Vienna, where I am completing an MA thesis on the relationship between the first-person and third-person points of view, supervised by Professor Simon Rippon.
Before starting my MA, I earned a BA in Philosophy and Sociology from Dartmouth College, with a minor in Astronomy. While at Dartmouth, I served as News Editor for The Dartmouth, held a Human Development Fellowship through the Dickey Center, and completed a policy internship at the Latin America Youth Center. I also worked as a research assistant for Professor Brad Skow in MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, and for Professor Maron Greenleaf in Dartmouth's Department of Anthropology.
After graduating, I spent a few years working directly with people rather than only writing about them. I worked as a field guide in wilderness therapy programs, with Elements Wilderness Therapy and Pacific Quest, led a crew with the SouthWest Conservation Corps, and worked as a child welfare caseworker with the Colorado Department of Human Services. In between, I spent about eight months traveling through South America and Europe, working in hostels along the way. I currently work as a therapist understudy at the Nashoba Learning Group.
I was born in Cameroon and grew up partly there and partly in Washington, DC, an upbringing that shaped a lasting interest in how perspective, culture, and circumstance inform the way people come to know and describe the world, questions I now pursue more formally in philosophy.
Outside of research, I write, and keep a journal of essays on travel, philosophy, and everyday life.