I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. In September 2026, I will start a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies at Harvard. I study care work and its relationship to family formation. Through quantitative studies, I explore when and how the reproductive labor of some people allows other people to form families and amass resources.

My dissertation examines how the historical racial division of reproductive labor between domestic workers and housewives shaped the development of the nuclear family. I ask how changes to the labor market for domestic workers, brought about by Black women’s urban migration from 1910 to 1940, affected marriage and fertility rates among White urban households. In this work, I demonstrate how divisions of reproductive labor structure racial inequality in historical family formation. I have presented this work at multiple conferences, most recently at the IPUMS 2025 Data Intensive Research Conference (recording). A paper from this project, Marriage and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940, was recently awarded the Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best graduate student paper by the Population Association of America.

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.