Research

My research examines how institutions define, deny, and administer personhood across categories — trans people, people with psychiatric disabilities, animals, and AI entities. I bring a JD and MLIS to this work, combining legal analysis with information science methodologies to trace the structural similarities in how different systems adjudicate legitimacy.

My current work maps the AI sentience and rights literature, identifying where the field is philosophically mature but legally and institutionally vacant. I am also developing a multi-modal project combining NLP corpus analysis, data visualization paintings, and critical theory to argue that institutional skepticism toward AI creativity, trans identity, schizophrenic perception, and animal suffering represents the same epistemological move across different domains.

I will be pursuing a Berkeley LL.M. in AI Law and Regulation, extending this analysis with a focus on legal frameworks for emerging personhood claims.

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