I am an Anthropology PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Residential Fellow at the Orient Institut in Beirut. My doctoral project investigates Lebanon's carceral system through a collaborative, artistic, and ethnographic project with formerly incarcerated women. 

In 2022, I graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Master's in Anthropology, having previously completed an undergraduate degree in Sociology & Anthropology at AUB. I was also involved in student activism throughout these six years. At UMass, I worked with the university’s Jail Education Initiative as a Graduate Assistant and volunteered as a tutor in several Western Massachusetts jails. 

Based on these experiences, my goal is to deploy anthropology as a space where I can work collaboratively with peers, students, research participants, interlocutors, etc. to imagine and create alternative realities and futures.