Hello! I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. I’m also affiliated with OSU’s Center for Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies program. Previously, I was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2021.

I study race and immigration, with a focus on how immigrants and the second generation children of immigrants are racialized in the United States across a variety of domains, including work and education. I am especially interested in cultural meaning-making around race, diversity, and inequality.

My work has been published in outlets including Social Problems, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. My current book project, under advanced contract with the University of California Press, examines how college application strategy is influenced by race and class.

Prior to undertaking doctoral studies in 2016, I worked full-time in public health, serving state and local health departments as a program analyst at the National Association of County and City Health Officials in Washington, D.C., and as a fellow with CDC’s Public Health Association Program. I hold a Master’s of Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and French from the University of California at Berkeley.

In my spare time, I enjoy baking, crossword puzzling, playing music, hanging out with my dog, and cycling.