Academic Interests

I am particularly interested in exploring how and why the built environment has developed into its current iteration. This line of questioning led me to ask how many and which transnational influences were most impactful? Furthermore, to what racialized and socioeconomically stratified ends? My undergraduate study of History focused on labor, gender, comparative race, and ethnicity in the United States. Understanding the quotidian impacts of more extensive structural and ideological processes made me effective in my non-profit housing job. However, I am now working to build on both research and practical experience to apply to doctorate programs in History .

Research Experience

Growing Food in the City: Urban Food Gardens for Research and Education $274,924.00 USDA-NIFA-HSI-006951 (P.I. Choi Chatterjee)

Graduate Research Assistant

Sep 2020- Present

United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture

• Establish agricultural database of existing gardens at the San Gabriel Mission

• Reconstruct agricultural chronology of mission properties from archival data

• Develop climate literacy lecture series for NSS1001 sections on Climate Change and Modern Agriculture

Relevant Experience

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2020 - Present

California State Los Angeles Department of History Los Angeles, CA

• Courses: History of the United States from 1877: Fall 2020

Graduate Assistant

July 2020

California State Los Angeles College of Natural and Social Sciences Los Angeles, CA Freshman

• Summer Fellowship program

Housing Coordinator

May 2015 - Aug 2018

Brilliant Corners Los Angeles, CA

• Provide housing retention services to individuals who were formerly homeless in scattered-site housing in Los Angeles County