I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UCLA. My doctoral research lies at the intersection of social, political, and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on social system failure and dysfunction, strategic and unexpected forms of maneuvering, and the more tragic or unsettling aspects of human life.

My primary project, On Strategic Social Resistance and Navigation, examines how individuals, embedded within the very social systems that structure and sustain our lives, navigate a complex push-and-pull of partial reliance, conformity, and resistance. It investigates the dynamic power relationships that arise as people both depend on and contest these systems, exploring the strategies they adopt to balance where allegiance is warranted and where defiance becomes necessary.

I also work on epistemology, especially its intersection with natural language semantics and social issues.

As a philosopher, I am particularly fascinated—and often troubled—by the gray and dark areas of life where existential weight and practical urgency demand answers, but moral and social complexities resist any simple ones.

So I distract myself by writing in the Las Vegas casinos sometimes.