I am a sociologist and demographer who studies the political economy of care work and its relationship to family formation. Through quantitative studies, I explore how the family outcomes of some depend on the control they have over the reproductive labor of others.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies at Harvard University. I received my PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2026.

Research

My dissertation examines how the racial division of reproductive labor between domestic workers and middle-class households shapes historical racial inequalities in family formation. Using full count Census data from 1910 to 1940, I show how changes to the labor market for domestic workers brought about by Black women’s migration to cities made it easier for White women to marry earlier and have more children. This work reveals the centrality of reproductive labor to gender, race, and class inequality. 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. I am currently developing a related project that asks: did Black women’s migration and occupational segregation into domestic work in the early twentieth century affect their own family formation?

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.

Teaching

At UC Berkeley I was a Senior Data Science Fellow at the D-Lab, where I taught workshops on data science for the social sciences. I have also taught undergraduate courses on social theory and demographic methods.