I am a writer, philosopher, and activist.

With Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, I wrote an epistolary memoir of the covid-19 pandemic, The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once (Aleph Books Company, 2025) — an intimate glimpse into the courage to break with normal and the complexities of friendship, detailing episodes of family estrangement, tense racial dynamics, gender transitions, chronic pain, dramatic career changes, and activist campaigns. A speculative novel, “Not Normal,” and a series of short fictions titled “The Self and Other Fables,” are in-progress.  I spearheaded AI for the People, a multi-disciplinary vision of an ecological human-AI symbiosis, which won third place in the Future of Life’s Worldbuilding Contest.

With a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley, I have taught at Bard, Princeton, and New York state prisons.   As assistant editor of The Philosopher magazine, I published a regular column “Liquid Philosophy,” in which I wrote about everything from activism to AI, as well as acting as interlocutor for prominent public intellectuals, including Kate Manne and Maggie Nelson.

I’ve experimented with most theories of social change, and shared my learnings through the Activist Graduate School, which I co-founded. I participated in direct action non-violence in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement. I investigated structural economic reform via a development studies program in Uganda. I’ve lived in an intentional community in Oregon and organized parent mutual aid networks. I facilitated the first meetings of Occupy SF and Occupy Berkeley, and taught inside New York State’s prisons via the Bard Prison Initiative. Most recently, I co-founded and led the mid-Hudson branch of the Still-Coviding movement.

I’ve lived and travelled around the world. Now I grow vegetables and homeschool my kids in the Hudson Valley, NY. If it’s summer, you’ll find me in the water or the hammock with a book. If it’s winter, I’m wearing double socks and wondering if I’m too old to learn to ski.