I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Princeton University and a 2025-2026 Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.

My research is in social and political philosophy. I like using interdisciplinary methods—especially formal modeling, but occasionally also archival research.

My dissertation focuses on a cluster of related concepts: power, influence, dependence, and control. It aims to develop resources useful to philosophers for thinking about how these operate in diffuse, multi-agent structures, such as social groups and networks. Recently, I have been thinking about consociationalism and about intra-household bargaining.

I have additional interests in the history of Africana philosophy, game and social choice theory, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence. 

My dissertation committee members are Philip Pettit, Lidal Dror, Lara Buchak, and Hendrik Lorenz.

Before coming to Princeton, I received a B.A. in Philosophy at Stanford University and an M.A. in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich). 

Recent and upcoming talks

“Interlacing Committees and the Associational Value of Representation”

• 18th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, University of Tokyo, June 13-16, 2026

“Preference-Sensitive Power and the Power-of-Numbers”

• PPE Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 13-15, 2025
• Social Choice: Theory and Computation, Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College, October 15-17, 2025

“Race, Culture, and the Unnatural State: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Natural Law Theory” 

• Conference on Vice, Classical Association of Ghana, University of Ghana, December 17-18, 2025
• Association for Global Political Thought Annual Conference, American University, April 25-27, 2025

“How to Think About the Power-of-Numbers”

• Practical Philosophy at Institutional Intersections, Kings College London, May 21-22, 2025

Comments on Camilo Martinez, “Junk Norms”

• Knowledge in Crisis Social Metaphysics Workshop, Central European University, June 25-28, 2025