Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Eric Beerbohm

• Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
• Lab Committee, 2009-
• Director, Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship Program, 2010-

Eric Beerbohm is Assistant Professor of Government and the Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University and Director of Graduate Fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of distributive justice, and the philosophy of social science. He is currently working on the ethical problems associated with democratic lawmaking, including legislative compromise, obstructionism, and political leadership. His book, In Our Name: The Ethics of Representative Democracy (forthcoming, Princeton University Press), examines the moral responsibilities of citizens for political injustice. He has also written on the implications of moral uncertainty for political decision-making, the demandingness of deliberative democracy, and the moral risks imposed by anti-egalitarian social policies. A Marshall Scholar and Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008, B.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University, and BA in Political Science and the Program in Ethics in Society from Stanford University. In 2009-2010 he was a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Email | Ph: 617.495.2261

Abigail Bergman Gorlach

• Staff, 2011-

Abigail joined the Center in August 2011. She has held positions at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP. Prior to joining the Center, Abigail spent a year traveling abroad and immersing herself in other cultures. She also spent time in the public health field, working as an HIV/AIDS intern with Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. While there, she advocated for greater access to HIV/TB prevention and antiretroviral treatment, as well as assisted with workshops on preventing mother-to-child transmission. In addition to working at the Center, Abigail enjoys traveling, reading Russian literature in English, and yoga.

Email | Ph: 617.495.0599

Jennifer Campbell

• Staff, 2008-

Jennifer joined the Center in October 2008. She is a graduate of the University of Washington where she studied English and Comparative Literature, with a focus on 19th century British literature. During her undergraduate career, she was employed at a well-known entertainment company, where she was educated in the many nuances of the video game industry. Subsequently, she spent a year serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA for Resource Development with Habitat for Humanity of Utah County. She enjoys traveling, cooking, sketching, and reading Victorian literature, particularly the works of George Eliot, of which she is excessively fond.

Email | Ph: 617.384.9458

Stephanie Dant

• Staff, 2005-

Stephanie came to the Center in May 2005 as assistant to Dennis Thompson. Prior to joining the Center, she worked in the world of scientific publishing where she found a new appreciation for neurons, cells and molecules and the scientists who write about such things. As for her own interests and curiosities, she finds music, music history, and travel most interesting. Future goals, some less immediate than others, include learning to cook and play a musical instrument (though not at the same time), living abroad and dedicating time to volunteerism.

Szelena Gray

• Staff, 2010-

Szelena Gray is the executive assistant to director Lawrence Lessig. Prior to joining the Center, Szelena spent two years at the nonprofit social justice advocacy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) as both a research assistant and staff member. Szelena received her MTS from Harvard Divinity School in 2009 and completed her BA in religious and women's studies at the University of Florida. Her research and activism has long focused on the application of critical gender theory to the politics of subject formation and social rights, and as a master's student Szelena studied dead body politics, or social subjectivity and public reburials, in post-Socialist Central Europe. Szelena enjoys reconciling her existential phenomenological politics with her desire for a data-driven life, and believes that content management systems are integral to this practice.