Who We Are

WHO WE ARE

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZERS

Milana Kostic (Co-Director) is a third year graduate student at UCSD. Her main interests lie at the intersection of [formal] epistemology, philosophical logic and natural language semantics. She was one of the founding members of the MAP chapter at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). She became a MAP International Organizer in 2019.

Jocelyn (Yuxing) Wang (Co-Director) is a fourth year graduate student at MIT. Her main interests lie in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and philosophical psychology. In her previous and more promising life she was an aspiring architect. When she is not doing philosophy, you can find her playing tennis, watching soccer, or channeling her passion for design into ingenious personal projects. She became a MAP International organizer in 2020.

Jesi Taylor Cruz (Organizer) is a second year MA student in the philosophy program at the CUNY Graduate Center whose primary research areas of focus are Critical Race Theory, discard studies, genocide studies, and political philosophy. Her current work explores the relationship between waste inequity, structural violence, and evolving conceptions of "the human" through a Black feminist lens. She was a MAP leader of the undergraduate CUNY Brooklyn College chapter from 2015-2017 and became an MAP International organizer in 2020. When not writing and researching, she's a toddler mom and ruthless critic of all that exists.

Lel Jones (Organizer) is a nonbinary activist, musician, and philosophy PhD student. They are pursuing their PhD and designated emphasis in Feminist Theory at UC Davis (on unceded Patwin land). Lel focuses in feminist philosophy and its intersections with environmental ethics, neuroethics, blame, and philosophy of language. They are currently working on their first x-phi project which researches potential discursive injustice.

Alexandria James (Organizer) is a second-year philosophy MA student at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores aesthetics, Black existentialism and phenomenology, and decolonial philosophy through a Black feminist lens. She also has related interests in Africana criticisms, namely Afro-pessimism, Black optimism, and Afrofuturism, as well as indigenous studies. Alexandria is a dedicated activist who has co-organized actions relating to anti-Black racism and state violence with People’s Power Assemblies NYC, decolonizing academia(and its limits) and anti-austerity with FreeCUNY, and is grateful for the insights her studies provide in informing this work. She became a MAP International Organizer in 2021.

Sophia Wushanley is a first year PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her primary interests are in ethics, political, and social philosophy. A former software engineer, she is especially interested in data ethics, algorithmic justice, and the impact of technology on inequality. Before starting her PhD at Michigan, she lived in France for six years, where she got a master's at the Sorbonne and later worked in Parisian technology startups. In her free time, she likes lifting weights and watching sci fi movies (but not at the same time).

Grecia Sánchez (Program Manager) is a first year MA student in the philosophy program at Western Michigan University whose primary research areas of focus are social epistemology, applied ethics, Latinx philosophy and socio-political philosophy. She is a MAP Program Manager for MAP Inter-Campus Peer Mentorship Network in 2021. When not writing/researching, she's venturing in between public philosophy projects, practicing yoga, playing chess, and reading about her newest interest astrology.

You can read more about MAP's institutional history here.