Philosophy Symposium

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.

Abigail Higgins is a freelance journalist based in East Africa whose work appears in The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, Al Jazeera, The Times of London, and The Boston Globe. Her work on conflict and security, women’s rights, politics, and human rights is inflected by five years in the region during which she learned to speak fluent Swahili. She covered the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi, al Shabab's attack on Garissa University in Northeastern Kenya, and the civil unrest and failed military coup in Burundi. She studied Political Science, African Politics, and Gender Studies at Bryn Mawr College. You can find her on Twitter, @abbyhiggins, and Instagram @abbymhiggins and see more of her work at abbyhiggins.com.