Non-Academic Positions

• 2018-2019: Director of Programs and Education, Boarding Homes Ministry (tending to a poverty of companionship in Toronto’s inner-city)

• 2017-2018: Interim Director, Boarding Homes Ministry

Spiritual Training

• 1988-Present: Daughter of a spiritually gifted mystic, poet, and practical theologian

• January-May 2023: Emergence Magazine Spiritual Ecology Leadership Program

• 2007-2017: Mentorship in inner-city spiritual care

• 2013-2014: Hospice volunteer

Public Philosophy (selected; see events for all recent events)

• June 2024-Present Host of “The Sacred Sessions” in the Oude Kerk

• March 2024 Poet “The Cost” recited at For the Love of the World: Philosophy, Technology and Art Festival, TU Delft Studium Generale

• January 2024 Interviewee on Radio 2050 episode “Community and Technology”, Radio Paradise

• January 2023 – present Podcast host and writer for Beauty in the Mire on Substack             

• May 2023 Guest expert on Supersenses episode, “Remote Touch”, BBC Radio 4

• March 2023 Speaker, “Regain Your Touch: Tech, Food, and Care” for Posing Questions series, Life Itself

• December 2022 Writer, “Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect with Life” for Yes! Magazine

• September 2022 Speaker, “Shifting from Attention to Attending” at Future of Intelligence, Brave New World Conference

• December 2021 Writer, “A Future of Work Worth Caring About: At the Crux of Change” for Andersland

• February 2020 Writer, “It’s Time for Tech to Ask ‘Should We’ Instead of ‘Could We’” for OneZero

Academic Publications

• Ley, M. (under review). Feeding Carelessness: Caring Attention and the Problem of Buying Food Online. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

• Ley, M. (2023). Care Ethics and the Future of work: A Different Voice. Philosophy and Technology. 36

• van Wynsberghe, A., Ley, M., Roeser, S. (2022). Ethical Aspects of Human Robot Collaboration in Industrial Work Settings. In: Aldinhas Ferreira, M.I. Fletcher, S.R. (eds) The 21st Century Industrial Robot: When Tools Become Collaborators. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 81. Springer, Cham.

• Ley, M. & Rambukkana, N. (2021). Touching at a Distance: Digital Intimacies, Haptic Platforms, and the Ethics of Consent. Science and Engineering Ethics 27 (5):1-17.

• Ley, M. (2021)“Being Sophia: What Makes the World’s First Robot Citizen?”Intersectional Automations. Ed. Nathan Rambukkana. Lexington.

Teaching (selected) 

• March 2021- Present: Guest Lecturer, Care ethics for both Engineering Ethics, master’s course and Industrial Design master’s course, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology 

• May 2023 Guest Lecturer, Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction for Industrial Design master’s course, Delft University of Technology  

• April 2023 Workshop Organizer and Facilitator, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethics of Retail Robotics, Delft University of Technology  

• January 2023 Course Designer, Philosophy of Technology 101, Toronto Metropolitan University

• September 2022 – December 2022 Teaching Assistant, Ethics of AI bachelor course, Delft University of Technology 

• June 2022 Workshop Organizer and Facilitator, Ethics for Robotics and AI Research for REMARO network on Reliable AI for Marine Robotics, Delft University of Technology  

• February 2021 – April 2022 Teaching Assistant, Robotics and Society master’s course, Delft University of Technology 

• January - March 2020 Teaching Assistant, Ethics of Applied Mathematics master’s course, Delft University of Technology

• September - December 2019 Teaching Assistant, Ethics for Engineering bachelor’s course, Delft University of Technology

• September 2018- May 2019 Teaching Assistant, Science, Technology and Society, bachelor’s course, York University

• September 2016– December 2016 Teaching Assistant, Nursing Ethics bachelor’s course, Ryerson University (renamed Toronto Metropolitan University) 

• September 2015- December 2016 Teaching Assistant, Critical Thinking bachelor’s course, Ryerson University (renamed Toronto Metropolitan University) 

Education

• 2019-2024: Doctoral Candidate. Delft University of Technology, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology. Dissertation Title: “It’s Not Just About the Robots: Care and Carelessness in an Automated Supply Chain” (defense Dec. 10th 2024)

• 2017- 2019: Doctoral Candidate. York University, Science and Technology Studies.

• 2015- 2017: Master of Philosophy (MA) (Gold Medal Winner) Ryerson University (renamed Toronto Metropolitan University), Department of Philosophy. Thesis Title: “Touch in Medical Care: A Corporeal Conversation”

• 2011-2015: Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) in Western Society and Culture (With Distinction). Concordia University, Liberal Arts College. Honours Thesis Title: “Observing Levinasian Ethics in Canadian Palliative Care”

Recognitions

• 2022: “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” List by Lighthouse3

• 2018: Emerging Scholar Award, Aging and Social Change Network

  • York University Graduate Fellowship

• 2017: York University Graduate Fellowship

  • Ryerson University Gold Medal, Faculty of Arts

  • Ryerson Graduate Development Award