I'm 26 and live in Tucson, Arizona in a lovely little adobe house with two wonderful cats.

I'm working towards a PhD in philosophy at the University of Arizona. My dissertation is on Plato's account of the good intellectual agent. For more information about my research interests, please visit my university website here.

What I'm up to:
Working on my dissertation, taking as much of the summer off that I can get away with, reading good fiction and cooking tasty dinners for friends.

What's up next:
My prospectus defense and continuing to write my dissertation. I figure I'll be at this stage for a good long while.

I'm currently reading:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and various works of short fiction by Calvino, Borges, Cortarzar, and the like.

I've Lived in:
Germany, South Dakota, North Pole, Alaska, Washington, DC, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Oxford, England, and Tucson, AZ

I was:
An Alaskan, a page for the House of Representatives, an alumna of North Pole High School (‘99), an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College (‘03)

I am:
A philosopher, a teacher, an artist, a cook, a coffee roaster (and subsequently also a coffee snob), the proud aunt of two nieces and sister of Kati and Kori. I'm liberal, a knitter, left handed and a reader of Greek and Latin. I'm a political junkie and an impatient driver. I'm bad at small talk but great at arguing.