I am a Lecturer at Stanford University, where I teach introductory, interdisciplinary courses to first-year students. I earned my PhD in Sociology at Stanford by conducting original qualitative research on childbirth preferences. 

I am a medical and cultural sociologist who uses qualitative methods to study bodies as sites for the reproduction of gender inequality. More specifically, I study sexual violence, family formation, and pregnancy and childbirth. My work is published in Sociological Perspectives, Contexts, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

In my dissertation research, I used interviews, surveys, and observations to study how women in the SF Bay Area prepare for and experience their first births. I am currently writing papers and a book proposal using these data.Grants from the American Sociological Association, the Center for Institutional Courage, the Stanford Ethnography Lab, and the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences supported this research.

I am also a birth and postpartum doula taking clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.