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Service to the Profession
I am deeply committed to promoting linguistic justice in academia, especially in philosophy.
I have been proactively involved in various international linguistic justice initiatives since 2021.


Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy
Together with Amandine Catala, Filippo Contesi, and Anna Klieber, I run the Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy (BP), which is an initiative to raise awareness about potential disadvantages that nonnative speakers of English experience in academic philosophy. BP was launched by Filippo Contesi as a manifesto in 2021 and was signed by more than 750 individuals to this day. In 2023, we opened the BP for institutional endorsement and we reached 25 institutional endorsements within a year.
Linguistic Justice Society
Linguistic Justice Society aims to bring together scholars and activists from various backgrounds and disciplines, including but not limited to health humanities, linguistics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. I am currently part of the leadership working along Filippo Contesi, Sergi Morales-Gálvez, and Yael Peled. We have been organizing bi-monthly webinars showcasing new works on linguistic justice and looking into additional ways to strengthen the network.
Please email linguistic.justice.society@gmail.com to join our mail list and hear about our events. You can watch the recordings of the previous webinars here.
"Survey on Epistemic Challenges Faced by Native and Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy"
I work with an international group of scholars on a project on the epistemic challenges that speakers with various linguistic backgrounds experience in philosophy. This project, led by Uwe Peters, aims to collect data from academic philosophers with a wide range of expertise and geographical locations. The survey stayed open from September 15th, 2024 to November 1st 2024. The paper which reports the results are under-review in a philosopy journal.
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Service to the Department
As a graduate student, I took various leadership roles contributing to the diversity efforts in the department and cultivating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere.
Philosophy Graduate Student Organization (PGSO)
President (2022 - 2023)
PGSO represents the graduate student body of the philosophy department. As the president, I organized the annual graduate student meeting, foresaw the selection of all other service positions, and served as the main liaison between faculty and graduate students throughout the academic year.
Women and Gender Minorities (WAGM )
Coordinator (2021 - 2022)
Working Papers Coordinator (2016 - 2017)
WAGM group brings together women and gender minorities in the philosophy department and serves as a supportive network. In 2021 - 2022, I served as the coordinator and I organized the WAGM talk, where a philosopher that graduate members of the group selected come to give a talk and spend time with the WAGM members. I also organized the annual brunch for WAGM faculty and graduate students in addition to several informal meetings for graduate student members. In 2016 - 2017, I organized working paper meetings for the graduate members of the WAGM group.​​​
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP)
Co-Representative
(2019 - 2020)
Representative
(2018 - 2019)
MAP is an organization that aims to increase diversity in the profession and has more than 170 chapters around the world. In 2018, when the MAP chapter in our department was about to close, I stepped in and revitalized the chapter. In addition to initiating an annual MAP speaker event and a formal MAP dinner funded by the department, I organized a workshop for graduate students and faculty where Chinese graduate students taught us how to pronounce Chinese names. The workshop was a success as it was well attended and participants reported that they felt more comfortable pronouncing their students' names after the workshop. It also served as a reparative case for linguistic justice since for a moment we reversed linguistic authority roles in the department.​​​​
Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Co-Organizer (2015 - 2016)
As one of the co-organizers of the Syracuse University Philosophy Graduate Conference, I was responsible for planning the entire conference - from distributing the call for papers to handling the review process and coordinating the speaker's trips and hosting and to making sure that all goes smoothly.