About

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the Geography and Environment Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My studies and research focus on intergenerational caregiving and the future of aging in cities.

I am a 2023/24 Community Practice Lab Fellow in UNC’s Department of Health Sciences, where I lead research and evaluation to support the Orange County Department on Aging’s Master Aging Plan, and support regional collaboration to preserve and develop affordable housing in Orange County, NC.

I am also a research assistant for Dr. Betsy Olson on the project Caregiving Youth: Understanding the Identities and Everyday Spaces of Young People Who are Family Caregivers in the U.S., funded by the National Science Foundation.

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.