WHO WE ARE
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZERS
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Angela Sun (Co-Director) is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her research is in ethics, action, and aesthetics. Angela is proud of her involvement in various undergraduate and high school outreach initiatives. From 2017-2019 she co-organized Michigan COMPASS (a diversity institute for students interested in pursuing graduate studies in philosophy) and was chair of the Michigan High School Ethics Bowl committee from 2018-2020. She became a MAP International organizer in 2019.
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Jingyi Wu (Co-Director) is a third year PhD student at UC Irvine's Logic and Philosophy of Science department. Her research primarily focuses on the philosophy of physics and social epistemology. She co-founded the MAP chapter at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in 2018 before becoming a MAP International Organizer later that year. She co-organizes WonderPhilosophy, an annual workshop for underserved students on applying to philosophy graduate programs.
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Jesi Taylor Cruz (Organizer) is a first 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.
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Milana Kostic (Organizer) is a second 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.
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Lemogang Modisakeng (Organizer) teaches philosophy at the School of Governance and Social Studies, Nelson Mandela University. Shx’s a third year graduate student of Philosophy at Rhodes University as a David Ryan Fellow. While an undergrad student at Rhodes, Lemo spearheaded the name change project where colonial names were removed from student residences on campus, and was involved in the #FeesMustFall movement. Modisakeng holds a Rhodes-Investec Top 100 award (2017); Merit Award (2018) and was awarded the Trevor Cohen Prize for excellence in philosophy (2018). Hxr research areas are in Southern African philosophy, specifically the philosophy of Setswana oral tradition and Africana phenomenology. Modisakeng currently teaches Ideology Critique, Philosophical Questioning and Philosophical Argumentation/Logic.
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Jocelyn (Yuxing) Wang (Organizer) is a third 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.
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You can read more about MAP's institutional history here.
UK ORGANIZERS
Azita Chellappoo
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Amy Conkerton-Darby
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Lizzy Ventham
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BOARD OF FACULTY ADVISORS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
MAP is generously supported by the Marc Sanders Foundation. We are also supported by Rutgers University, UC Irvine, and the University of Michigan.
Other co-funding institutions include SUNY Buffalo, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Manchester, New School for Social Research, University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, Syracuse University, University of Albany, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sydney, University of Washington, University of Texas (Austin), Wellesley College, and Western University.
Other co-funding institutions include SUNY Buffalo, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Manchester, New School for Social Research, University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, Syracuse University, University of Albany, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sydney, University of Washington, University of Texas (Austin), Wellesley College, and Western University.