Biography

I am a current PhD Candidate in Demography and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliated student at the Max Planck Research School for Population, Health, and Data Science in Rostock, Germany.  I hold a Master in Public Policy with a Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in International Relations and Economic Development from Tufts University.  

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My research lies at the intersection of population health, mortality, and public policy, focused on how social and policy contexts shape the lives and deaths of individuals across the United States. I am particularly interested in leveraging demographic and statistical methods to explore how the relationships between place, health, and mortality vary across multiple intersectional axes of social stratification, such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age. 

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Some of my recent work includes a project which examines the link between local carceral contexts and age-, race-, and sex-specific mortality across U.S. counties. Another applies demographic life table methods to better understand how state-driven family intervention through the carceral and welfare systems collectively operate in the lives of children across the United States. I have also led and contributed to a variety of projects investigating spatial, racial, age, and cause of death variation in mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a project exploring the role of state eviction bans in mitigating the pandemic's mental health costs.  My current research explores the political geography of avoidable death in the United States, examining variation in the relationship between politics, policies, and amenable and preventable mortality among Black and White men and women.

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My work has appeared in Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior,  SSM-Population Health,  JAMA Network Open, PLOS ONE, Science Advances, and Children and Youth Services Review.