I am completing a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy at The New School Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment in affiliation with the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. 

I am a member of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science’s Research to Action committee.

I serve on the UC Berkeley Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae board as Faculty Enrichment Award chair. 

I have been a Fulbright, USAID Research Innovation, and America Jewish World Service fellow in South Africa.  

I have studied Political Economy of Africa and the Caribbean at the University of Weest Indies and completed the University of Amsterdam's Gender and Sexuality Summer Institute.

I am on the editorial board of Journal of Correctional Health Care, American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus, Public Integrity, and World Medical & Health Policy. 

I received my B.A. from UC Berkeley and my M.P.H. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University.

I am a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar, which is a leadership training program in health policy translation, dissemination, communication, health equity, and population health, led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I completed certified training in Scoping and Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Policy Surveillance, and Peer Reviewing.

I have been a lecturer and preceptor with Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs; The New School Politics department and Lang College Social Science Fellowship; and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.

I have also taught in state prisons with the NJ Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) consortium.

Courses include: Equity; Research Methods; Critical Perspectives in Global Health; and Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice.