I was raised on Long Island, New York—evident in my accent and occasional use of Yiddish. My love of philosophy developed early, beginning in my high school lit classes—thanks to being assigned existentialist fiction like Notes from Underground and Unbearable Lightness of Being—and crystallizing on the beaches of Welwyn Preserve, where I spent many days in my teens. I knew I wanted to study philosophy, going so far as to write my college application essay on why I wanted to pursue the major despite its lack of definable career prospects (it was New York in 2011). 

At seventeen, I left home to start undergrad in South Florida, where I studied and worked for two years before transferring to Hofstra University back to Long Island. It wasn’t until I was a junior at Hofstra, while discussing the philosophy department’s senior thesis with Prof. Dr. Terry Godlove, that I learned graduate school in philosophy was a real option. And so, it began.

After graduating from Hofstra University in 2018, I spent a year and a half in Europe pursuing my M.A. in Modern and Contemporary European Philosophy at the University of Luxembourg. By chance, I moved the last of my belongings out of Luxembourg on March 1, 2020—one day after Luxembourg experienced its first case of COVID-19, and one week before the US closed its borders to travel. I spent lockdown in New York, where I wrote my M.A. thesis from home while working as an essential, in-person employee... at a municipal golf course.

In September 2020, I moved to Boston to begin my PhD at Boston University, and I’ve lived here since. I regularly travel to present my work or attend organizing conferences and workshops. See my upcoming travel dates below.