Lizzie Krontiris received her PhD in Political Theory at Yale University in 2019. She wrote her dissertation on Hannah Arendt’s concept of “the common world” and the problem of building shared reality in politics. She is currently a faculty member in the Writing Program at Wellesley College and teaches first-year writing courses on topics including the problem of lying in politics, the purpose and social function of higher education, and the way that work gets valued and shaped by modern capitalism. She has also taught courses for Yale College, the Warrior-Scholar Project, Chicago’s Odyssey Project, and the GCE Lab School in Chicago.