I am a scholar of public policy, social inequality, and population health. 

I completed my PhD in Public Policy at Duke University in May 2023, after successfully defending my dissertation, "Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional, Mixed-Methods Approach." In my dissertation, I examined the association between state Medicaid program variability and older adults' health, especially long-term care and life expectancy.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the population science training program at the Carolina Population Center (CPC). A key focus on my postdoc has been using the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine disparities in health insurance as well as mental and physical health outcomes for LGBTQ+ populations.

Overall, my research aims are to determine whether access to health and social policies can disrupt expected trajectories of health disadvantages from birth until death, particularly for vulnerable populations in the US.