I use mixed methods to research how policy, management, ethics, and law operate at the nexus of criminal legal, social welfare, and health systems to shape citizen-state relations, policy implementation, and public health and safety outcomes.
I am grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for supporting my training and research as a Health Policy Research Scholar.
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 Research to Action committee. I also serve on the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice and Health (ACCJH) research committee.
I serve on the UC Berkeley Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae board as Faculty Enrichment Award chair.
As part of the Fulbright US Student Program, USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship program, and America Jewish World Service, I have worked and trained in South Africa. I have also completed research in the Accra metropolitan region of Ghana with Columbia University's The Earth Institute.
I have studied Political Economy of Africa and the Caribbean at the University of West Indies and completed the University of Amsterdam's Gender and Sexuality Summer Institute.
I am on the editorial boards 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 an alumna of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Research Scholars program, 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 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 with the NJ Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) consortium.
