About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. My research is on wrongful discrimination, and my interests are broadly in social, political, and moral philosophy. 

I hold a Master's in Political Science from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in Philosophy from Nanyang Technological University. From 2023 to 2024, I was a visitor at the Chair in Philosophy and Political Theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. 

(My pronouns are she/her, but I'm also fine with they/them.)

Research Interests

My research projects are unified by the theme of unjust inequality. I am particularly interested in how we might describe and evaluate unjust inequalities in various contexts, such as everyday choices, institutions, and inquiry. 

Manuscripts Under Preparation 

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Doctoral Thesis

Discrimination and Irrelevance 


The view that (wrongful) discrimination involves differential treatment on the basis of irrelevant considerations has been scarcely defended. In my thesis, I look to defend it. In the first half, I develop a notion of irrelevance and use it to describe rationality's role in a conception of discrimination. In the second half, I address the worry that a focus on rationality dilutes discrimination's putative moral content. I show that an irrelevance view of discrimination allows that paradigm cases, as marked by socially salient attributes, warrant special moral concern. Two upshots. First, the resulting conception of discrimination is ecumenical with respect to moral theories. Second, the resulting conception of discrimination accounts not just for inequalities precipitated by background injustice, but ones that are new or emerging too.