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 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
What Can We Get Started for You? How Starbucks Union Wins Increase Nearby Workers’ Support for Unionization
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