I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. My main interests are in logic, language, and metaphysics. My supervisor is Graham Priest. I am also Digital Director of the Futures Initiative, co-coordinator of OpenCUNY, and a photographer.
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Futures Initiative
CUNY Graduate Center
Digital Director
2024 – present
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- Administrator and developer for official The Futures Initiative website (WordPress), including domain and backend management
- Administrator for CUNY Graduate Center subsite for The Futures Initiative (Drupal), including events and news postings with the GC Communications and Marketing team
- Professional event and portrait photography
OpenCUNY
CUNY Graduate Center
Coordinator
2024 – present
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- WordPress multisite administration with ~1000 users, including custom domain and email management
- Developing official website of CUNY Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC)
- Collaborated on DGSC site migration from Drupal to WordPress across web hosting services
- Successfully deployed custom room reservation system for DGSC (frontend and backend) using open-source LibreBooking
- Developed custom forms management system for DGSC (frontend and backend) using open-source FormTools
- Advocate for Open Source and Open Educational Resources
City College, City University of New York
OER Project Faculty
2024 – present
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- Developing fully open introductory course on formal logic based on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles
- All materials natively hosted on Pressbooks
- CC BY-NC-SA licensed
Baruch College, City University of New York
Adjunct Instructor
2020 – 2024
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- PHI 3010 – Symbolic Logic
Fully OER course using own introductory textbook to symbolic logic based on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles - PHI 1600 – Logic and Moral Reasoning
Fully OER course - PHI 1100 – Ethics and Critical Thinking
Mina Rees Library
CUNY Graduate Center
College Assistant
2020 – 2023
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- Circulation Assistant at the Mina Rees Library of the Graduate Center
- Responsible for check-in and check-out of library materials, including stacks, reserves and Interlibrary Loan using Alma Library Management System
- Patron account management duties and holdings reports
- On-site patron assistance
Auróra Commmunity House
Head of Communications
2018 – 2019
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- Responsible for all communications by Auróra, including social media, web, and PR, encompassing copy, graphics, photo, and video, with special focus on event marketing
- Communicating to an audience of >25k people
- Coordinated crisis communications and subsequent fundraising campaign, including national and international press
- Coordinated volunteer communications team of ~10, worked closely with Chief Coordinator, event managers, artists, and NGOs
- Participated in international meet-ups and projects with other NGOs
Deviszont Community Space
Co-Founder and mentor
2017 – 2019
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- Co-founded educational NGO for low-income teens from ground up based on critical pedagogical principles
- Involved in all aspects of foundational work, including organizational design, fundraising, communications and event planning, grant writing, and meetings with diverse stakeholders (educators, academics, politicians)
- Secured funding, physical space, and recognition to launch weekly afterschool work with students
- Participated as student mentor
- Continued organizational work in background
Bánkitó Festival
Head of Social Media and Creative Writer
2016 – 2019
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- Head writer responsible for all written communications, including web, social media, print, and PR
- Social media manager responsible for all channels
- Communicating to an audience of >20k visitors
- Worked closely with organizing team including Festival Director, Communications and Marketing, sponsors, artists (music, theatre, visual), and NGOs
CUNY Graduate Center
PhD in Philosophy
2019 – present (ABD)
Dissertation
Title: Model-theoretic Arguments in Philosophy
Advisor: Graham Priest
Committee: Mel Fitting, Anandi Hattiangadi, Muhammad Ali Khalidi
MA & MPhil in Philosophy
2022
Central European University
MA in Philosophy
2016 – 2018
MA Thesis
Title: Trees without Models: Truth-Valuational Semantics and the Tableau Method
Advisor: Hanoch Ben-Yami
Eötvös Loránd University
BA in Liberal Arts
2012 – 2016
BA Thesis
Title: Fictionalism in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Language
Thesis advisor: Zsófia Zvolenszky
College For Advanced Studies in Social Theory
Member in-residence
2013 – 2015
University College Dublin
Erasmus+ Scholarship
2014/15 Fall