Researcher • Educator • Advocate • Social Worker

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A little about me & my research:

I am a PhD candidate at the New York University Silver School of Social Work and a licensed social worker with over a decade of combined advocacy, organizing, and clinical practice experience. Built on the assertion that “we can’t understand what we can’t see,” my research uses critical quantitative approaches to subvert systems of power that render invisible the experiences of those furthest to the margins. My work primarily interrogates how carceral logics shape institutional responses to harm, tracing how coercion and control operate within and across micro, mezzo, and macro systems to criminalize survivors of intimate partner violence across intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Grounded in Black abolition feminist traditions and queer disabled epistemologies, this research examines how policies that are framed as protective, such as mandatory arrest, often function instead as mechanisms of racialized, gendered, and sexuality-based punishment.

Across my broader scholarship, I draw on quantitative, qualitative, and critical theoretical approaches to (1) render visible the experiences of those systematically excluded from research; (2) situate those experiences within the historical and structural conditions that produced them; and (3) reimagine systems of care and accountability beyond punishment. My published research extends across disciplines such as psychiatry and epidemiology, public health, and abolitionist social work to examine how structural conditions shape well-being and institutional responses across different areas of research. This work includes a first author paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin, the leading journal on schizophrenia research, alongside an APHA-award winning first author paper in Social Science & Medicine–Qualitative Research in Health. My work has been supported by competitive fellowships and initiatives such as NYU’s Urban Doctoral Fellowship, and featured in national media outlets including NPR’s The Academic Minute, HealthDay, and more. Ultimately, I aim to use research as a tool to transform institutional responses to harm and marginalization into ones grounded in community care, collective liberation, and above all, the lived wisdom of those whose experiences are written out of a knowledge base largely governed by the academy.