I am a writer, philosopher, organizer, and parent.

With Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, I wrote an epistolary memoir of the covid-19 pandemic, The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once (Aleph Books Company, 2025) — an intimate glimpse into the courage to break with normal and the complexities of friendship.

Now I’m at work on a speculative novel, “Not Normal,” a series of short fictions titled “The Self and Other Fables,” and several books for children.  Recently, I spearheaded AI for the People, a multi-disciplinary vision of an ecological human-AI symbiosis, which won third place in the Future of Life’s Worldbuilding Contest.

My love of ideas began at Swarthmore College, where I earned my BA in History with a minor in Interpretation Theory (Phi Beta Kappa), and continued with an MA from SUNY Binghamton in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture. After obtaining my Ph.D. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley, I taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and New York state prisons.

As assistant editor of The Philosopher magazine, I published a regular column “Liquid Philosophy” and interviewed prominent public intellectuals, including Kate Manne and Maggie Nelson. I continue to facilitate writing workshops for The Philosopher.

I’ve experimented with most theories of social change, and shared my learnings through the Activist Graduate School, which I co-founded with my partner, Micah Bornfree. I participated in direct action non-violence in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement. I investigated structural economic reform via a development studies program in Uganda. I’ve lived in an intentional community in Oregon and organized parent mutual aid networks. I facilitated the first meetings of Occupy SF and Occupy Berkeley, and taught inside New York State’s prisons via the Bard Prison Initiative. Most recently, I co-founded and led the mid-Hudson branch of the Still-Coviding movement.

I’ve lived and traveled around the world. I’m currently making my home in Southeast Iowa, with my partner, two kids, two cats, one beagle, and one ball python.