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.