About Me
I am a PhD student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. My research interests are in the fields of work, stratification, and organizations. I have experience in quantitative, computational, and qualitative interview study methods.
I am member of the Political Economy Designated Emphasis Program, a fellow in the Computational Social Science Training Program, and a Research Awardee at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at U.C. Berkeley. Prior to graduate school I worked in the U.S. Senate as a labor analyst on the HELP Committee and I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School working on The Shift Project. I received my BA in Political Science and American Studies from Tufts University.
Research
Work in Progress
Workers of My World, Unite! A Two-Step Model for the Diffusion of Pro-Union Sentiment
R&R at Social Forces
Family-Friendly Work and Health: The Importance of Time and Control
Annual Review of Public Health, 2027
Publications
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities in Access to Work Breaks
Sociological Science, 2024
Other Writing
Low Pay, Less Predictability: Fast Food Jobs in California — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2022
Tax Filing in the Service Sector — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2022
Working in the Service Sector in Colorado — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2022
Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2022
Half of Service Sector Workers Are Not Yet Vaccinated for COVID-19: What Gets in the Way? — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2021
Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector — with , The Shift Project Research Brief, 2021
TANF Policies Reflect Racist Legacy of Cash Assistance: Reimagined Program Should Center Black Mothers — with , Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2021
Presentations
Care Under Constraint: Work Intensity in U.S. Nursing Homes — The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Bordeaux, France, July 2026
Workers of the Work Unite! The Diffusion of Pro-Union Sentiment — American Sociological Association 2025 Annual Meeting, August 2025
Industry, Politics, and Labor: The Battle for Unionization at Mercedes-Benz — Berkeley Sociology Colloquium, March 2025
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities in Access to Work Breaks — California Labor Lab, November 2022
Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities in Access to Work Breaks — LERA 74th Annual Meeting, Broadening the Definition of Job Quality and Work Scheduling Quality Panel, June 2022
Working in the Service Sector in Colorado — Briefing to Colorado legislators, February 2022