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Examining how to build a just future for all sentient beings through multidisciplinary research and policy<\/p>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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\n Examining important issues for animals and the environment, with special focus on agriculture and conservation\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy\n <\/h4>\n\n

\n Examining the nature and intrinsic value of nonhuman minds, with special focus on invertebrates and AI systems\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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I am currently Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of\u00a0Bioethics,\u00a0Medical Ethics,\u00a0Philosophy, and\u00a0Law, Director of the\u00a0Center for Environmental and Animal Protection,<\/span> Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. I am also a Faculty Fellow at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at the NYU School of Law and an Advisor at the Animals in Context series at NYU Press. I served as Director of the NYU Animal Studies M.A. Program from 2018-2024.<\/p>\n\n\n \n

I was previously Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and before that I held postdoctoral fellowships in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and Environmental Studies at New York University. I earned my Ph.D. in Philosophy at New York University in 2011.<\/p>\n

My research focuses on moral philosophy, legal philosophy, and philosophy of mind; animal minds, ethics, and policy; AI minds, ethics, and policy; and global health and climate ethics and policy. My books The Moral Circle<\/a> and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves<\/a> are out now. My co-authored books Chimpanzee Rights<\/a> and Food, Animals, and the Environment<\/a> are out as well.<\/p>\n

My teaching focuses on animal and environmental ethics and law. Recent classes include Animal Minds; Animals and Climate Change; Animals and Public Health; Ethics and the Anthropocene; Effective Animal Advocacy; Ethics and Animals; Ethics and the Environment; Food, Animals, and the Environment; Moral Status; Bioethics; Population Ethics; and Philosophy of Law.<\/p>\n

In addition to my work at NYU, I am currently an advisor at Eleos AI Research<\/a>, which investigates AI sentience and well-being; an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society<\/a>, which connects insect welfare researchers and stakeholders; an advisory board member at the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience<\/a>, which uses science to design better ways of caring for other animals; and a senior research affiliate at the Institute for Law & AI<\/a>, which advises on legal challenges posed by AI. I was previously a board member at Animal Charity Evaluators<\/a>, which works to promote the most effective ways to help animals, and a board member at Minding Animals International<\/a>, which furthers the development of animal studies, as well.<\/p>\n

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    \n Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\n <\/h4>\n\n

    \n Examining important issues for animals and the environment, with special focus on agriculture and conservation\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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    \n Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy\n <\/h4>\n\n

    \n Examining the nature and intrinsic value of nonhuman minds, with special focus on invertebrates and AI systems\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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    \n Wild Animal Welfare Program\n <\/h4>\n\n

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