Traveling to Denton, Texas represented two “firsts” for me. It was my first time visiting the Lone Star state beyond the security perimeter of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, and also my first face-to-face meeting with a Millennial I met exclusively through social media.

Not long after launching the website this past winter, a gregarious faculty member from the University of North Texas named Keith Wayne Brown happened across the blog and promptly put me in touch with one of his UNT cohorts – Kelli. Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, Kelli earned a bachelor’s degree in Marine Sciences at Eckerd College. But shortly after graduation, she packed her bags for Denton to pursue a long-harbored passion: philosophy. She now instructs and studies there as a PhD candidate and a teaching fellow. Her subject of expertise is an interdisciplinary blend of philosophy and environmental ethics. Imagine if Aristotelian logic had been built around…