Kat Myers

Kat Myers researches and teaches at the intersection of environmental ethics and religious ethics, bringing them into conversation with feminist theory, philosophy, human rights law, and environmental studies. Her work explores how ethical theory can be grounded in lived experience and made responsive to pervasive structures of suffering. 

Myers' first book project develops a conceptual framework for addressing the moral and structural consequences of climate displacement. Drawing on Schopenhauer’s ethics of compassion, feminist vulnerability theory, and prefigurative practices of mutual aid, she argues that displacement reveals how law and social isolation are major sources of suffering. The project further explores how legal systems, religious traditions, and grassroots communities, when reoriented by compassion, can become resources for an ethical response. Her broader research examines how metaphysical reflection and moral psychology can inform practices of community-building in contexts of ecological disruption.

Myers earned her PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She also holds a JD from Boston University School of Law. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as an international human rights lawyer specializing in refugee law and reproductive rights.