Dr. Cara O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at BMCC/CUNY, where she has taught since 2014. In 2017 she received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University with the dissertation, “Empowerment Respect, Self-Respect, and Political Liberalism.” Working at the intersection of political theory, conceptual ethics, feminist care theory, and disability theory, O’Connor is interested in the different ways respect is demanded and leveraged in political and ethical discourse. O’Connor currently co-directs the Society for Women in Philosophy-New York City (SWIP-NYC).