Adam Hollowell is an educator, consultant, and ethicist who works to promote collective efforts for a more just world.

An innovative and award-winning professor, he teaches ethics, public policy, and philosophy at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also serves as the director of the Leadership and Ethics Colloquium for the Robertston Scholars Leadership Program.

Adam writes From the Ethics Desk, a popular Substack newsletter on life, teaching, and the common good. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Santa Clara Review, Chicago Story Press, MID LVL MAG, Bleating Thing, and Sojourners. He is the author of You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge with Jamie McGhee.

He offers strategic consulting, leadership coaching, and values clarification to individuals and organizations around the world as the founder of Applied Ethics Consulting. An experienced facilitator, problem solver, and strategic thinker, he emphasizes values-based leadership development and practical decision-making to help clients clarify priorities, strengthen capabilities, and build confidence.

He is a leading scholar in the emerging field of Inequality Studies and the author of fifteen peer-review articles and reports, as well as Stratification Economics and Disability Justice with Keisha Bentley-Edwards. He holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a BA from Duke University.

Adam lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.