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Grecia Sánchez Blanco is a Mexican philosopher currently working as an instructor for the philosophy department at Western Michigan University, having taught courses on Values and Video Games, Bioethics, and Argument, Inquiry and Debate thus far. Her primary research areas of focus are applied ethics, philosophy for/with children, Latinx philosophy, public philosophy, and socio-political philosophy.

In December 2022, she graduated from WMU with her master’s degree in Philosophy with a concentration on Theoretical and Applied Ethics. She also graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at El Paso with a double major in Multimedia Journalism and Philosophy. In fact, she is a member of the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Pathways to the Professoriate program, a Mellon-funded initiative to increase the number of Latinx professors in the United States.

During her time at WMU, Grecia was awarded the 2021-2022 Diversity and Inclusion Student Writing Prize for her work “Sugar, Pan de Muerto, and Grief: How Rituals Inform our Understandings of Grief”, which advocates for the inclusion of the ritual of the Day of the Dead in answering questions about the duration of grief. Also, during her first year of graduate school, she won the 2021 Creative Research Award for her public philosophy project with El Concilio, a non-profit dedicated to providing educational resources to the Latinx community in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Grecia taught philosophy for/with children classes on classrooms full of children from various immigrant backgrounds. This experience culminated in her work “’I Still Feel Like Me’: Philosophy for Children pedagogies for Students with Immigrant Backgrounds”, where she incorporates the philosophical perspectives of immigrant children on issues of justice, identity, and immigration systems.

In 2021, she served as one of the Program Managers for MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) in their MAP International’s Inter-Campus Peer Mentorship Network where Grecia facilitated the success of the MAP peer mentorship program by serving as a resource/point person for 50 to 60 graduate student participants during the period of the Beta phase of the mentorship program.

When not writing/researching, she’s venturing in between public philosophy projects, practicing sports, playing chess, and avidly advocating for mental health through her social media networks.