Jada Wiggleton-Little

Jada Wiggleton-Little is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at the University of California San Diego. (UCSD). Her research focuses on pain communication, particularly in the context of racial and gender disparities in pain management. Jada has been recognized as a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow and as an inaugural Sadler Scholar with the Hastings Center. In 2021, she was selected to be a visiting scholar with the Program for Neuroethics and Clinical Consciousness (at the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics at Medstar Washington Hospital. Her work has been published in the Journal of Hospital Ethics, the HealthCare Ethics Committee (HEC) Forum, and is forthcoming in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. She served as a board member for UCSD’s Black Graduate and Professional Students Association for three years.