About me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University and an NIH/NICHD Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow (F31). As a medical sociologist, I use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to investigate how social and institutional forces shape both the provision and utilization of health services, with a focus on sexual and reproductive healthcare. In 2023, I was named an Emerging Scholar in Family Planning by the Society of Family Planning.

My dissertation combines in-depth interviews alongside administrative electronic medical records to examine how social policies, including Medicaid policy and local-level reproductive healthcare access policies, shape disparities in sexual and reproductive healthcare utilization. This mixed-methods approach will reveal how the policy context in which women are embedded generates healthcare inequities.

I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market, and I plan to graduate in spring 2025.

I graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in Mathematics and Sociology in 2018 and received my MA in Sociology and MS in Applied Statistics from Indiana University in 2019 and 2021.