Monica Vilhauer, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

Philosophical Counselor: Counseling adults on the philosophical dimensions of everyday struggles and big life-questions surrounding meaning, purpose, values, identity, empowerment, and fulfillment.Educator: Designing and leading conversational workshops and experiential learning retreats on philosophy as a way of life. Developing communities of thinkers engaged in the examined life and intentional living. Topics are rooted in ethics and social-political philosophy, philosophy of dialogue and communication, ancient philosophy, existentialism, feminist thought, and environmental ethics. Copywriter/Content Writer: Writing website, blog posts, email campaigns, newsletters, social media posts, brochures, and posters. Increasing awareness about philosophy programs and improving enrollment numbers. Educational Program Manager: Organizing all aspects of philosophy workshops and retreats for adults, including topic selection, readings, venue, marketing materials, guest speakers, and registration. __________________________Collaborator with . . .Lewis & Clark College: Designed and led an alternative spring break retreat for students on the philosophy of nature and environmental ethics. Developed and led a conversational workshop on spirituality for atheists, agnostics, and skeptics for students. Oregon Humanities: Developed a Conversation Project with Oregon Humanities on ethics and sports for 2018-2019.Literary Arts: Developed two Delve Readers Seminars for Literary Arts on Plato's love dialogues for 2018-2019.American Philosophical Practitioners Association: Co-created and facilitated professional development workshops for philosophical counselors (2022).Live True Counseling: Designed and taught introductory lectures on existential philosophy to train counselors in the theoretical grounding of existential-humanistic approaches to counseling (2023).www.curioussoulphilosophy.com

Edited academic book manuscripts and journal articles to help authors earn publishing contracts.Worked closely with writers, tailoring feedback to strengthen arguments, ideas, and clarity.Transformed drafts into accessible, persuasive, and well-organized prose.Ensured copy was grammatically correct and adhered to Chicago Manual of Style.

Edited and evaluated blog posts written by professors, researchers, and counselors according to PT guidelines for online publication.Wrote social media posts for top blogs to reach a general audience with practical mental health insights.

Edited web education pages and blog articles for Blue Nile, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, FreshBooks, Hipcamp, and Because Market to offer practical value to customers and build trust.Ensured web copy was clean, grammatically correct, consistent, accurate, logical, well organized, engaging, and easy to understand. Adhered to client style guides, project brief requirements, and SEO best practices.

Portland, Oregon

Edited and wrote creative B2B and B2C product copy for adidas and Reebok, focusing on brand heritage and the power of story to connect with customers.Ensured product copy was consumer-friendly, clean, consistent, and accurate in accordance with unique guidelines for 10+ business units, overarching brand style and voice guidelines, legal requirements, specifications for apparel and footwear technologies, SEO best practices, AP style, and grammar rules. Collaborated with a team of editors, writers, researchers, project managers, and proofreaders to deliver thousands of engaging product descriptions each season, resulting in a record year for e-commerce sales at adidas in 2018.

Portland, Oregon

Researched, wrote and edited web, email, and social media content for a boutique travel company, including customized itineraries, service descriptions, traveler instructions, and staff bios. Increased customer understanding of services, peace of mind, excitement to travel, and interest in learning about new cultures, resulting in repeat business and customer recommendations.

Forest Grove, Or

Teacher and Curriculum Designer: Designed and taught five courses to diverse groups of students, focusing on ethics, the examination of values and applying ethical theory through community service and personal responsibility. Increased student engagement in classroom discussion and critical thinking from 10% to 80% through Socratic pedagogy, focused reading questions and guided writing assignments that connected theory to practice. Project Manager: Directed 90 students in the successful completion of civic engagement projects, while managing six student mentors and collaborating with three administrators. Coached students in research on ethics-related causes, volunteer work, the creation of community engagement events, time management, and strategies for working in a group. Cultivated young change-makers ready to take on social justice issues.

Salem, Va

Teacher and Curriculum Designer: Designed and taught 40+ college courses, primarily in ethics and social thought, focused on critical thinking, analytical writing, and civil discussion. Helped students with little prior analytical experience become competent case-makers. Published Author: Published five philosophical articles and one book on the ethical dimensions of communication.Professional Presenter: Presented 20+ papers at conferences around the world. Delivered keynote addresses in England, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Grant Writer: Earned five research grants (including the two highest offered at Roanoke College). Served as a member of the college Faculty Development Committee, which reviews faculty grant applications, for three yearsTeacher to the Teachers: Taught philosophical ethics to faculty to prepare them to teach a values-based general education course. Offered workshops on writing grant applications and book proposals. Offered workshops on maximizing student participation in class and on writing instruction. Tutored writing tutors on successful argumentative essays.Coach and Counselor: Coached college students in critical thinking, analytical writing, study skills, effective communication, problems surrounding gender equity, academic and life direction. Advised senior thesis, summer scholar and independent study students through the entire cycle of research, writing and service projects. Helped students complete courses and earn honors, grants and grad school entrance. Program Manager: Co-created and managed the Gender & Women’s Studies program. Created program requirements, recruited professors, advertised courses, managed budget, invited guest speakers, organized events, and advised students. Doubled the number of students in the program.Content Writer: Developed website, social media, poster, and pamphlet content for Philosophy and Gender & Women’s Studies programs, increasing student, parent, alumni, and donor engagement.

New York, Ny

Taught my first college courses in ethics and ancient philosophy at the undergraduate division of The New School for Social Research. Courses focused on analytical reading and writing, and clear oral communication.

New York, Ny

Assisted with research and editing for professors for whom English was a second language.

Ph.D., Philosophy

Specialties: Ethics, Social-Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Existentialism, Hermeneutics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Major: Philosophy; Minor: Russian Studies

Final semester in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia