Nate Speert
Nate is in his fourth year as a Psychology major at VIU, where he somehow balances being Lab Manager in the Cognition & Lifespan Development Lab, running multiple research projects on mind-wandering, Death Cafés, and the emotional architecture of the human mind. He recently presented work at VIU’s Philosophy Colloquium and has spent the past several months building a cross-disciplinary reading group that brings philosophy into conversation with psychology (and anyone willing to argue about consciousness for two hours on a Tuesday night). Nate is preparing applications for graduate school, where he hopes to continue studying the way our thoughts drift, scatter, and occasionally illuminate the things that matter most. When he’s not troubleshooting PsychoPy code or writing statements of purpose, he can usually be found at a recovery meeting, reading Rorty, or accidentally starting a new research project.