Ben Stahnke is a Ph.D. student and President's Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies at Antioch University, where he is conducting research on the intersection of political philosophy, environmental policy-making, and ecology. Ben holds an M.A. in social and political philosophy from Antioch University, and a B.A. in classical philosophy and anthropology from The Evergreen State College. Ben's essays have been published in Climate & Capitalism, and Forward: Popular Theory and Practice.