I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. My research applies a relational approach to family-based inequality by studying how the labor of some groups reproduces the status and material standing of other groups.

My dissertation explores the role of paid and unpaid care work in the historical development of the nuclear family. I ask how changes to the labor market for domestic workers, brought about by Black women’s movement during the first wave of the Great Migration, affected marriage and fertility rates among White urban households. Through this work I demonstrate how organizations of care link the families of some people to the care labor of other people. I have presented the first article from this project at multiple conferences, most recently at the IPUMS Data Intensive Research Conference (recording).

Beyond my historical work, I have published papers on the role of income dynamics in the Black-White wealth gap and methods for linking and harmonizing large-scale micro data. I work primarily with publicly available survey data, including full count historical Census data. I am a Senior Data Science Fellow at UC Berkeley’s D-Lab, where I teach workshops on data science for the social sciences.

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