Maggie Little

Maggie Little is the Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where she also serves as Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Director of Ethics Lab. She holds advanced degrees including a B.A. from the University of Iowa, M.A. from the University of Oxford, and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley.

Her research explores critical areas of bioethics with particular emphasis on:

• Reproductive ethics and justice issues
• Clinical research frameworks and ethical oversight
• Data ethics and AI governance
• Structural foundations of moral theory
• Ethical implications of emerging technologies

She co-founded The Second Wave Initiative to advance responsible research for pregnant women's health needs.

Dr. Little has received prestigious recognition including being a Rhodes Scholar and Fellow of the Hastings Center. She served on the Ethics Committee of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and completed two residencies as Visiting Scholar at the NIH Department of Bioethics.

As former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, she pioneered the world's first Introduction to Bioethics MOOC and launched the annual Conversations in Bioethics symposium. Through Ethics Lab, she leads interdisciplinary teams combining philosophical analysis with design thinking to develop ethical frameworks for complex societal challenges. She is a founding co-chair of Georgetown's Tech and Society Initiative.