Rock Ethics Institute

Biography

Taran Samarth is a sophomore majoring in political science, philosophy, and sociology from State College, Pennsylvania, and a Rock Ethics Institute fellow working with Dr. Jeremy Engels. They are a Paterno Fellow, a coder with the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, a member of the Penn State International Affairs and Debate Association, and an associate justice on the UPUA Judicial Board. Their academic, research, and advocacy interests focus on left politics, police abolition, and popular social movements. Rock Ethics Institute faculty member Jeremy Engels is supervising their project “The Art, Science, and Ethics of Breathing.”