“Independent scholar arguing care & accountability were left out of the Constitution's design, & that omission drives today's system failures”
I'm a Chicago-based philosopher and independent scholar. My project, Toward Reconstitution, argues that care and accountability weren't accidentally overlooked in America's constitutional design — their absence is structural, and it's why problems in governance, labor, healthcare, and democratic participation keep recurring no matter who's in charge.
The free civic document, Toward Reconstitution: Repairing the Constitutional Omission of Care, has been accepted for presentation at five academic conferences across disciplines. A 13-episode podcast launches September 2026, and a nonfiction book is currently in development.
I bring a distinct analytical framework with a lexicon and a taxonomy for naming exactly how systems create unaccountable harm, and I can apply it live to breaking news, court rulings, or whatever's on a host's mind. I'm comfortable with long-form philosophical conversation and with fast, concrete examples pulled from current events.
I run an organizational consulting practice for venture-backed startups, using a structural-fracture framework to figure out why things like culture, turnover, or communication keep breaking down as a company scales. Instead of treating those as one-off problems, I trace them back to where a company's values and its actual operations have come apart, and help fix the structure, not just the symptom.
A civic framework by Melissa Cosgrove reimagining the American Constitution around care, relation, and responsibility. Explore a vision for democratic repair grounded in integrity and interdependence.
Writing that moves between lived experience and structural truth, naming rupture and imagining systems that care and support us all. Click to read The Care Paradigm, by Melissa Cosgrove, a Substack publication.
