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I am a philosopher currently serving as a UC President's Post-doctoral Fellow at UC Irvine and as a collaborator in the Emotion and Society Lab at UC Riverside.

In 2021, I completed my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill, writing a dissertation under the direction of Susan Wolf.

While at UNC, I was an E. Maynard Adams Fellow for the Public Humanities. I continue to try to find ways to bring philosophical questions, methods, and discussions to public audiences. 

I was born in Santa Maria, CA and was raised both there and in the greater Portland, OR metropolitan area. My family is largely of Mexican-American and Filipino descent. I'm a first-generation college student, and was a McNair Scholar while in undergrad.

When I'm not being a philosopher, I fill my time playing ice hockey, reading trans/queer fiction, and playing with my dog, Canela Dulce.

I use they/them/theirs pronouns.

In another life, I played bass in a ska band. 

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Contact:
em.hernandez@uci.edu