Alex Madva

Alex Madva is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics & Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. His teaching and research explore how developments in technology and the social sciences inform our understanding of the mind and justice. He co-wrote Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT 2025) and co-edited An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge 2020) and The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, 2021).

Madva received his BA in Philosophy and English at Tufts University and his MA and PhD from Columbia University, and previously held positions as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Berkeley (2012-2014) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College (2014-2015). He is engaged in ongoing, collaborative research testing classroom-based interventions to reduce achievement gaps, increase belonging, and break down structural barriers for students from underrepresented groups in disciplines such as physics, economics, mathematics, and philosophy. He has run numerous workshops and training sessions on bias, stereotype threat, impostor feelings, Title IX, and intergroup cooperation for schools, courts, and wider audiences.