Judith Lichtenberg is professor emerita of philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Previously she was a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught philosophy. She has written about domestic and international justice, just war theory, media ethics, effective altruism, criminal justice, and a variety of questions in ethical theory. She is the author Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty (2014); coauthor, with Robert K. Fullinwider, of Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions (2004); and editor of Democracy and the Mass Media (1990). Since 2016 she has taught at Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland and the DC Jail in Washington, DC.