About

Hi! 👋🏻 I'm Becky Vartabedian. Thanks for visiting.

Living Deliberately, Living Well (LDLW 3.0) is written by Becky Vartabedian. LDLW is a collection of writing that insists lessons from philosophy have value for our everyday lives. Especially here, and especially now.

Becky Vartabedian is a writer, philosopher, and teacher who lives and works on Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute land (Denver, Colorado). Becky's writing is interdisciplinary, calling on philosophy, film, art and art-making, history, religion, and sometimes mathematics.

Becky is committed to the practices of public philosophy and the public humanities. In 2026, she's co-hosting the Shop at Matter's monthly(ish) Seminar series, now in its second year and funded by Denver Arts and Venues. Becky is also part of the community of scholars that comprise the Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry, or D-Phi. She's offered public art tours, participated on panel discussions, and facilitated Q & A for an international film director who was not excited to be Q'ed and had far fewer As for the audience. Ask her about it sometime - it's a funny story.

Becky earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA; she has graduate degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies (philosophy and film studies) and philosophy of religion. She is Professor of Philosophy at Regis University and the Director for Equitable Change Management at Compass Ethics, an organizational ethics consultancy.

Born and raised in the Denver area, Becky lives in Denver with her husband, Andrew, and two basenji comrades named Luke and Lucille. She likes school, noodles in broth, deadlifting, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Becky appeared on an episode of Jeopardy! in April 2008. She did not win.