Jack Flesher (he/they) is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at UW and has completed graduate certificates in Ethics, Public Critical Race Scholarship, and Philosophy for Children. He is also the Philosopher-in-Residence at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, and has been a judge for the Washington State High School Ethics Bowl for the past two years. Jack’s favorite thing about philosophy is that moment when you feel so sure that you finally understand a big idea only to have someone else offer a completely new perspective that you’ve never considered that completely rocks your world and makes you stop and think.