Maria Kulp, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University. In addition to having taught Health Care Ethics for almost a decade, she has helped to start a Public Health Ethics committee for her local health district, served as the Ethics Chair of a triage committee for Eastern Washington during COVID-19, and worked on various other medical ethics committees. Her primary areas of research and publication are the ethics of medically assisted death, suicide, and philosophical pedagogy.