teaching, facilitation, and education

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broad topics

  • The practice of thorough, precise, and effective reading and writing in the humanities is the single most core skill.

  • High school is the absolute best time to be exposed to philosophy. I have experience engaging 14-18 year olds in meaningful conversation and learning across a breadth of philosophical topics.

  • For all use cases, including school, work, and more.

specialized topics

  • The practice of thorough, precise, and effective reading and writing in the humanities is the single most core skill.

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teaching, facilitation, & educational experience

August 2024 - Present

Castor Health Institute

Role: Director of Education
Capacity: Full time
Location: Freeport, IL & Sterling, IL


  • Since 2024 I have served as the full time Director of Education of the Castor Health Institute, a licensed healthcare vocational school in Northwest Illinois. In this role I have undertaken initiatives including curriculum development, educational expansion to healthcare facilities, and the creation of B2B educational software and training platforms.

Forest City Philosophy Club (FCPC)

February 2025 - Present

Role: Primary facilitator
Frequency: Monthly sessions + ocassional in-between
Audience: Open to the community
Location: Rockford, IL


  • I founded and have been the primary facilitator for the Forest City Philosophy Club, a community philosophy meetup that has attracted philosophy professors and students from the area, as well as artists, community organizers, and more. Each month, I facilitate a discussion or workshop around a relevant and interesting philosophical concept, with an emphasis on deep listening, concept creation, and relational reason.

Role: Sole facilitator
Duration: 3 hrs
Audience: Open to the community
Location: Rockford, IL

Buddhist Metaphysics

January 2026


  • I presented a session covering the basics of Buddhist metaphysics and ontology as part of the Forest City Philosophy Club, one of my ongoing projects. Topics covered include: the post-Vedic context of Buddhism's birth; the four Noble Truths; the five Aggregates and their post-phenomenological importance; the six Sense-Bases; the temporal flow of karma; samsara and nirvana; and more.

The Democracy Collective (DemCo)

August 2023 - May 2024

Role: Supporting Fellow
Frequency: 2-3 sessions per month
Audience: Community builders, organizers, and leaders in Cleveland, OH
Organization: Cleveland VOTES, supported by Liberation in a Generation


  • As one of the organizers of the first ever Democracy Collective (DemCo) cohort, I helped develop the program which would go on to incubate influential community leaders in Cleveland. Kirby Broadnax was the primary facilitator.

    DemCo was an exercise in developing an educational system for organizers and changemakers that could cultivate their talents in the same way that trade schools or universities cultivate other professions. It was a multidisciplinary approach to education.

Deleuzean Metaphysics for High Schoolers

January 2024

Role: Sole facilitator
Duration: 2 weeks, 3 hrs/day
Audience: High school students
Location: Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) (Aurora, IL)


  • I gave this course as an alumni presenter at IMSA's 2024 intersession, which gives students the opportunity to take one- or two-week courses on topics of interest taught by alumni, community members, and more.

    My goal was to get the students to understand, to some comfort, the first four chapters of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, and hopefully gain an appreciation for the depth of philosophy along the way. Presenting graduate-level philosophy in a way that high schoolers could understand, none of whom which had taken a class in philosophy, was an exciting challenge. Although dense, and at points difficult to navigate, the students generally came to me with very positive feedback, and demonstrated an exceptional ability to grasp abstract concepts.