Philosophical outreach and public philosophy are important to:

• keeping the profession from being slashed at universities
• facilitating philosophizing by people not at universities, which are the vast majority of people

Such outreach is also intrinsically rewarding. Two of my most fulfilling experiences as a professional philosopher were two outreach activities that I undertook while in graduate school:

• organizing the Iowa Lyceum, a free five-day philosophy summer camp for pre-college students in Iowa, for three years (2016-2018)
• organizing the Iowa Chapter, an on-campus undergraduate philosophy club at the University of Iowa, for five years (2015-2020)

Some of my current public-facing or public-facilitating philosophizing includes:

• making public-domain audio books for LibriVox
• moderating and answering questions on /r/askphilosophy
• posting about my experiences in research archives, or giving critical reactions to journal articles that I have read, or recording teaching strategies, and generally sharing thoughts on my current research