Education

Columbia University,  Ph.D. Sociology,  2019-Present.

Dissertation: “Places, Technologies, and Transitions: Contested Regulation in Urban Development and the Criminal Legal System”
Committee: Bruce Western, Gil Eyal, Joshua Whitford

Columbia University,  M.Phil. Sociology,  2023.

Thesis: “To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Wealthy Spaces in New York City”
Advisors: Bruce Western, Mario Small

Columbia University, M.A. Sociology, 2021.
Brown University, Sc.B. Social Analysis and Research, 2016.

Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors
Thesis: “Policing Gentrification: An Exploratory Analysis of Stop-and-Frisk and Income Disparity in Brooklyn, NYC”
Advisors: Jordan T. Camp, Rachel Franklin, Margot Jackson, Michael Kennedy

Selected Awards

  • Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation. 2021-2026.
  • Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 2019-2024.
  • Alumni Award for Outstanding Sociology Undergraduate Thesis, Brown University Department of Sociology, 2016.
  • Sociological Methods Award, Brown University Department of Sociology, 2016.
  • Peter G. and Paul G. Hanoian Memorial LINK Award for Work in Labor Relations and Social Justice Organizations, Brown University, 2014.