I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 2018, writing a dissertation on the nature and norms of praise, “In Praise of Praise”. I argue that philosophical thought on moral responsibility suffers from a legalistic orientation reflected in the tendency to treat blameworthiness as the model for understanding moral responsibility. By attending to individual reactive attitudes of praise (emotions like gratitude, admiration, and pride), I develop an account of responsibility in theestimability sense, which characterizes our aspirational stance towards other agents and ourselves. Before my PhD, I received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.