I focus my public and other service work on community & citizen science and education, broadly construed.
I'm a project coordinator with the Galápagos Education & Research Alliance, where I focus on community science, education, climate change, and conservation. The photos on this page are from a workshop we did with teachers in San Cristóbal about using portable qPCR technology to monitor water quality.
I'm further involved in Penn's Project for Philosophy for the Young, including Ethics Bowl coaching and helping with a philosophy-through-comics club for middle schoolers at B. B. Comegys Public School. At the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center in Seattle I ran one-off workshops on Philosophy of Science to supplement programing for the Summer High School Internship Program, an 8-week paid internship for 11th and 12th graders from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research.
I'm also a Philosopher in Residence at Palumbo Academy, a public high school in Philadelphia. We work directly with teachers to develop philosophical lessons for their classes (see Teaching) and run an after school Philosophy Club for students. The PIR high school program is run by PLATO and funded by the Whiting Foundation. Learn more in the spotlight story linked below!