Hi! I'm a social epidemiologist and postdoc at the SPHERE lab at UCSF. I try to put out research that helps communities confront health inequities, develop effective policy, and build happier, healthier lives. That work focuses on the role of social stratification, social policy, and the places we live in shaping our health. At UCSF, I am leveraging natural experiments to study the impacts of school segregation on child and young adult health. During my PhD, my dissertation examined the impact of eviction on children's health, and of children's health on their risk of eviction. Before my PhD, I was a public policy researcher at Abt Associates, where I focused on low-income people's access to community and government resources and the impact of those resources.

Recent work includes:

- Testing whether eviction harms children's cognitive skill development

- Unpacking the bidirectional relationship between eviction and health, using birth outcomes as an instructive example

- Using multilevel models to map police violence (and racial inequities in police violence) across US cities

I've also worked as:

/ a family health advocate at Health Leads Providence (connecting families to resources they need to address the social determinants of their health)

/ a sexual assault prevention peer educator

/ a queer student organizer

+ making maps, botany, & infographics.