Sophie Gibert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Her research focuses on the ethics of behavioral influence, including manipulation and paternalism, and she is especially interested in the moral obligations that we have toward people when they are not reasoning well. Sophie has taught in the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard, co-directed the Experiential Ethics course at MIT, and served as a teaching assistant for MIT courses in topics such as political philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion. Before graduate school, Sophie was a pre-doctoral fellow in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and studied philosophy and biology at Wellesley College.