I am a sociologist who studies culture, inequality, organizations, and subjectivity, particularly in contexts of education and precarious work, using qualitative and quantitative methods.

My research investigates how racial inequality is produced, reproduced, and mediated, as well as the meaning people make of it. I examine PK-12 schools, higher education, and work in early adulthood as contexts where these processes happen. I am particularly interested in inequality at the intersections of race, gender, and class, and in how subjectivity (selves, emotions, social psychology, agency), culture, and debt relate to racial inequality in organizations and society.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Broad Center at Yale School of Management. I hold a PhD and an MA in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and bachelor’s degrees from Wellesley College.

My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows Program and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley, and has been published in Sociology of Education.

Prior to graduate school, I worked in PK-12 public education and college access, state government, and public interest organizing. I have been a middle school teacher and college counselor in Louisiana, and I co-founded College Beyond, a college persistence non-profit serving Pell-eligible undergraduates in the Greater New Orleans region.