I am a 6th year PhD candidate in sociology. My dissertation uses archival and mixed methods to study nineteenth-century U.S. land policy, higher education, class structure and conflict, settler colonialism, and capitalism. I’m broadly interested in theories of state and governance, as well as histories of capitalist racism. Prior to doing my PhD, I was a teacher in public and private schools in California. I also have extensive experience union organizing, including labor and tenant unions, as well as contract negotiations. My research, as well as my classroom practices, are deeply informed by my political organizing experience.

I have published in City and Community, Contexts Magazine, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Social Science History Journal and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (forthcoming). I’m interested in lots of things, including culture, problems in education, and critical theory. Sometimes I write in my Substack (linked in the sidebar).

I am also an artist and musician. I paint, draw, and create mixed media pieces, combining expressive figurative work with abstraction and texture. I’m in two bands. I play drums in this band, and I write songs with guitar and sing in this band. I tend to think everyone should create something despite fear that the thing created may turn out bad.