Amy Reed-Sandoval

Welcome to my website! I am a philosopher, writer, and philosophy for children practitioner based in Las Vegas and Mexico City. 

I am Barrick Scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. My primary research interests are in political philosophy, with a special focus on migration issues, Latin American and Latinx philosophies, feminist philosophy, philosophy for children, bioethics, and public philosophy.

I often use ethnographic methods and practice community engagement as part of my philosophical research and writing. I also serve on the Editorial Board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as one of the subject editors of Latin American and Iberian Philosophy.

I am the author of two monographs: Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2025), and Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020).  I am also the co-editor, with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, of Latin American Immigration Ethics (University of Arizona Press, 2021) and Ética, Política, y Migración (UACJ Press, 2021; also with Roberto Sánchez Benítez). You can also access some of my academic articles and book chapters in my areas of research specialization here.

As a public philosopher, I have written for publications such as The New Yorker, The Hill, El País, LA Times En Español, Salon, Ms. Magazine, Psyche, The Guardian,  The Nevada Independent, Nevada Current, and Common Dreams, among others. You can access some of my other public-facing writings here. From 2021-2022, I was an inaugural Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophers in the Media Fellow.

I have been practicing philosophy for children (P4C) for nearly fifteen years. During the 2022-2023 academic year I was a Fulbright García-Robles Scholar in Mexico, pursuing P4C and other outreach projects in the Mexican states of Hidalgo and Puebla.  Prior to this, I founded the Oaxaca Philosophy for Children Initiative in Oaxaca City, Mexico, as well as the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a Whiting Public Engagement Fellow, I also created a free, virtual, asynchronous P4C course in Spanish, which can be accessed and used here. I am now developing a P4C program in the Las Vegas community.

Currently, I am writing a trade book about Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico. I will be in Mexico City on sabbatical during Fall 2026 doing research for this book. I am also working on several research collaborations on different areas of migration ethics. Contact me at amy.reed-sandoval@unlv.edu.