I am an academic that focuses on putting theory into practice through my research, teaching, collaborative leadership, and public activities. I am an urban and environmental sociologist concerned with analyzing power in everyday institutions and practices, in particular systemic racial oppression after disasters. Currently, I am working on an audio documentary on how an LGBTQ church in San Francisco survived the social and political disaster brought about by the AIDS epidemic during the 80s and 90s.

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Worcester State University. I received my PhD in Sociology in 2014 from the University of California Berkeley.

From 2017-2019 I was the Dean of Instruction and Student Services at College Unbound—a college for returning adult learners—where I ran the Prison Education Program. In 2017 I completed C3 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Studies and Sociology at Connecticut College.

I am a sitting member of the Board of Commissioners for the Providence Housing Authority.