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Lily Moore-Eissenberg

Election Year: 2020

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: Massachusetts & Wadham 2020

Lily Moore-Eissenberg

Biography

Lillian (Lily) Moore-Eissenberg, from Harvard, Massachusetts, is a senior at Yale University where she is completing double majors in English and Philosophy. Lily is an accomplished writer-philosopher whose work centers on analyzing the exploitation of marginalized groups, including issues of gender, migration, and family. An award-winning journalist, she served as editor-in-chief of Yale's political magazine, where she founded the university's only outlet for public philosophy. As an editorial intern at the Texas Monthly, Lily covered this summer's mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Lily plans a career as a philosophy professor and staff writer at a long-form magazine. At Oxford, Lily aims to continue her studies in philosophy.