Sara B. Olack earned her PhD in Philosophy at Harvard University, and her BA in Philosophy cum laude at Rice University. She has been an Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow at Harvard University, and has taught courses at Harvard on political philosophy and the philosophy of punishment. In her doctoral work, Dr. Olack has explored what reciprocity-based moral theories imply for the theory of punishment. In her research on bioethics and health policy, she will focus on the moral justification of paternalism in interactions with people whose capacities for rational agency are impaired or only partially realized, as in cases of Alzheimer's disease or autism. Dr. Olack seeks to develop a conception of autonomous agency as an attribute that is not all-or-nothing but comes in degrees, paying close attention to clinical work in medical settings: both as a source of information about relevant facts, and as an area of institutional policy to which a more sensitive understanding of compromised agency can contribute.