Leigh completed her BA in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, her MA in Philosophy at Villanova University, and her PhD in Philosophy (with a doctoral minor in African and African-American Studies) at The Pennsylvania State University. She wrote her dissertation on Derrida, truth commissions, and transitional justice, but her current teaching and research primarily focuses on the ethics and politics of emergent technologies.

You can watch her short documentary film Working in Memphis here, check out some of her innovative pedagogy here, and listen to her first foray into podcasting Black Mirror Reflections, in which she interviewed leading experts and asked them to reflect on the moral, philosophical, and technological insights of the television series Black Mirror.

She is currently at work on her manuscript, tentatively entitled The Age of Delegation.

You can find Leigh all over Al Gore’s internet at the following links:

• Facebook
• Bluesky
• TikTok
• YouTube
• Vimeo
• ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore (personal website)

Leigh is the Executive Producer and Editor of Hotel Bar Sessions podcast.

Jennifer Kling is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on social and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, protest, feminism, and philosophy of race. She is the author of:

• Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought: Toward Globalizing Political Philosophywith Colin J. Lewis, Oxford 2024
• Can War Be Justified? A Debatewith Andrew Fiala, Routledge 2023
• Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racismwith Leland Harper, Lexington 2022
• The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to Warwith Megan Mitchell, Rowman & Littlefield 2021
• War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral ResponsibilityLexington 2019

…and numerous articles in academic journals and edited collections. She is also the President (2024-2025) of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace.

Jen grew up in Indiana and received a BA in English and Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Colorado Springs, she taught for three years at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.

In her spare time, she whitewater kayaks, does aerial silks, reads voraciously, and is hopelessly addicted to Skittles.

Originally from Flint, Michigan, before the bad water, Bob got his PhD at DePaul University, concentrating in French phenomenology and German idealism, which, it turns out, did not turn out to be a “marketable” combination in the mid ’90s. After many years as an itinerant Visiting Assistant Professor or adjunct, Bob finally read the writing on the wall and became an academic administrator, which at least has the advantage of a job with a relatively finite series of tasks.

In April 2009, Bob got both a grant and his Italian passport, so he moved back to Europe and has lived and worked as a “remote” academic since in Paris and Florence. He still teaches as an adjunct at study abroad programs and Higher Ed institutions in Paris.

Bob is the creator of “Philosophy Matters” on:

• Facebook (nearly 10K followers)
• Instagram
• BlueSky

For shits and giggles, he pretends to be a stand-up comedian at night.