Rena Beatrice Goldstein is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She holds an MA in Education and Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles. Her research focuses in the field of social and applied epistemology, with an emphasis on 20th-century analytic philosophy, virtue epistemology, and the philosophy of education. She recently published a paper in Philosophia titled, Epistemic Disadvantage. Her work has also appeared in journals such as Educational Theory, Pre-college Philosophy and Public Practice, and in an edited volume published by Routledge.