Founding Director

Director of technology & ethics, Invitational HS Ethics Bowl program, and media initiatives
Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz

Janette Dinishak

Associate Director

Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz

Kyle Robertson

Director of prison and children programs, and NorCal High School Ethics Bowl

Continuing Lecturer, Philosophy & Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Director of Night of Ideas

Lecturer, Philosophy Department, UC Santa Cruz

Marian Avila Breach

J.D. Candidate and Public Interest Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law

Lead on Invitational HSEB, Spanish track

Juan Ruiz Cortes

Founder, Nepantla Philosophy, LLC

Ph.D. Student, Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
M.A., Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
Lead on Invitational HSEB, Spanish track


Student coaches, facilitators, interns, and researchers

Current and recent

Nima Agah
Jasmin Aleman
Gavin Beretvas
Brian Blanchette
Will Bortin
Marian Avila Breach
Gabriella Cinquini
Juan Ruiz Cortes
David Donley
Jordan Dopkins
Sandra Dreisbach

Aaron Franklin
Mary Garcia
Alea Grundler
Sarah Guirguis
Miles Hatfield
Francesca Hovagimian
Davi Kim
Bree Macdonald
Herman Madrigal
Alyssa Maples
Lisa Martinez
Paul Mojaver
Janna Offenberg

Tyler Olsson
Nicholas Paramoure
James Read
Lane Reisig
Emily Robertson
Aliye Swaby
Lou Stelzriede
Alyssa Tamboura
Alan Valenzo
Haakon Williams
Leqi Zeng
Pedro Enriquez