I’m a PhD candidate in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’m primarily interested in cognitive science, philosophy of language and mind. Find my CV here.

My dissertation argues that by focusing on the distinct ways that autistic people communicate, pretend, and perceive, we can develop general theories of conversation styles, pretense styles, perceptual styles, and the cognitive styles which underpin them all. In AY 2025-26, I’m a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

In 2024, I was the director of the NYC chapter of Corrupt the Youth. I also taught a bunch of courses at City College.

I love bad movies, emo music and indie video games. Ask me what I’m currently playing!

Email me at shernandez1 [at] gradcenter [dot] cuny [dot] edu