I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My studies and research focus on everyday geographies at the intersection of care work, aging in cities, and spatialized structural inequities.

My dissertation research brings together several of my community-based collaborations on aging in cities:

(1) Supporting housing stability for the expanding population of older adults choosing to age in their communities, drawing on my work as the coordinator of Orange County’s Home Preservation Coalition (OCHPC) 

(2) Examining intergenerational caregiving relationships between grandchildren and grandparents informed by my work with Dr. Betsy Olson on the project Youth Family Caregivers and the Geography of Childhood

(3) Analyzing spatial mismatches between older adults and community-based services, particularly in older industrial cities like Baltimore, my hometown.

Before beginning my Ph.D. I was a research associate at Urban Institute in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, where I led multi-method and community-engaged research focused on social and economic inequality in US cities. Prior to Urban Institute, I worked as a community development planner for the City of Evanston, Illinois, and as a union organizer with low-wage healthcare workers in Chicago and East St. Louis, Illinois. I received my master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016.