Political theory · AI governance
Hello, I’m Joan!
I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). I primarily work on AI governance, focused on how institutional design can prevent loss of control and human disempowerment. I think AI is the most important problem facing humans today, and I think we need all hands on deck. If you would like to talk more, reach out.
PhD in Political Science, Stanford (2024). M.Phil. in Public Policy, Cambridge (2018). Previous teaching experiences include Harvard, Stanford, and Deep Springs College. Before turning to AI governance, I worked on the history of feminist political thought and in feminist legal philosophy.
AI governance
Whistleblower law
Whistleblowing at the intersection of AI and national security
A report with Jesslyn Radack for CARMA and the AI Whistleblower Initiative on how AI concerns interact with national security whistleblowing law. Report forthcoming · Guide for national security contractors
Deskilling
Strategic resilience requires the targeted maintenance of human technical capacities
AI-induced deskilling creates strategic vulnerabilities. This position paper argues that critical human capacities have to be maintained deliberately, through institutions built for the purpose.
TAIGR Workshop, ICML 2026 · Read the paper
Empirical
Government AI use as a monitoring primitive
A pilot study that uses AI-text detection on public government documents to measure how much official writing is AI-generated.
TAIGR Workshop, ICML 2026 · Read the paper
Teaching
Selected courses
The Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University, 2026 · On 80,000 Hours’ list of recommended upskilling resources
Law, Justice, Order & Society in the Age of AI
John Jay College, Fall 2026
I’m always glad to help with course design, and former students are welcome to get in touch.
Feminist political theory
On Patriarchy: Origin Stories in Feminist Thought
My dissertation reads feminist thinkers from the 14th to the 21st centuries through the stories they tell about how patriarchy began, and what those stories imply about where we should go next.
About the project → · Read the dissertation
Sex, Technology, and the Law
Papers on consent, contract, and sexual media, including articles in Hypatia (2024) and Law & Philosophy (forthcoming).
Get in touch
For research collaborations, policy work, speaking, or course design.
