As a medical sociologist, a major tenet of my approach to research, teaching, and service is my belief that institutions of education and medicine have the responsibility to provide equitable conditions for students or patients to thrive. I study the social processes by which institutions shape orientations toward inequalities and how knowledges can be creatively integrated to improve upon these inequalities. I am particularly excited by the prospect of humanities and social sciences collaborations. 

Beyond academia, I am an avid proponent of enjoying the outdoors and playing (most) sports. In the pandemic, my dear friends and I started an extremely cool virtual workout group called The Cut Crew, where we still are not sure how to actually do a sit-up but are quite confident that we are hilarious    .