Ian Olasov is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lethbridge. His research interests are wide-ranging — spanning stereotype change, critical philosophy of language, the theory and practice of public philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of journalism — but revolve around questions about speech in the public interest. He is the author of Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions (St. Martin’s: 2020) and a co-editor of A Companion to Public Philosophy (Wiley: 2022). He is also serving as the President of the Public Philosophy Network, an organization that supports and develops resources for people doing publicly engaged philosophy, from 2023 to 2026. Current writing projects include a paper on how philosophy can reenchant the modern world, a paper about why we might want to change people’s stereotypes, a paper on philosophical expertise, and a book about understanding politically significant speech and how to tell when the politics of language really matters. Current public philosophy projects include planning conferences and workshops, the Public Philosophy Syllabus and Assignment Archive, a collection of Guides to Public Philosophy, and a white paper on supporting public philosophy through academic hiring and promotion. When he’s not thinking about philosophy (and sometimes when he is), he’s running, cooking, or Zooming with his partner in Brooklyn and their two dogs Patty and Scrapple.