• Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy Department, The City College of New York.
• Co-founder, Metro-Area Research Group on Awareness and Meditation.

• Master's thesis in the philosophy of perceptual experience and introspection, employing some areas of convergence between early Buddhist thought and recent philosophers of cognitive science such as Jesse Prinz and Alva Noë.

Training as a Theravāda Buddhist monk under the venerable Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma.

• Study in Pāli Buddhist canonical texts, intensive mindfulness meditation, and interpretation between Burmese and English for meditation retreats.
• An article about my time with U Pandita is published as "Nothing Special", in an anthology from Wisdom Publications.

• Undergraduate thesis on the linguistic and cultural interpretation of a Burmese Buddhist system of meditation practice for an American audience, published online by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.