I am a public scientist, program evaluator, bioethicist, educator, and artist.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics at the Grossman School of Medicine in NYU Langone Health, where I'm spearheading Ethics & Real-World Evidence research project (ERWE) to explore how evidence for investigational medical therapeutics is generated, interpreted and valuated.

Following a complex systems approach and case study method, my research of multi-partner health initiatives ties the practice of process evaluation in public health together with critical social inquiry common to science & technology studies (STS), performance studies, and visual art. Forthcoming publications concern the ethics behind para-performative practices in the applied health sciences.

I commonly borrow a practice from the performing arts - the lecture-performance - to study scientistic mediums like “the science poster” and “the webinar talk," as well as  job-seeking rituals like "the job talk" and "the work portfolio,” to investigate conceptions of scientific integrity, research excellence, and broader notions of professionalism, career advancement, and self-reinvention. For this line of work, I create the conditions for happenings that test the endurance of the aspiring, able-bodied “expert" in addition to tech's promise to support the architecture of individuality and assuredness.

My research has been funded by The Mellon Foundation and The Spencer Foundation and published in Performance Res, J of Embodied Res, and edited volumes by ICAF and Brill. For my work with Head Start centers in Boston and apparel manufacturers in Torreón, I was named a New Civics Scholar ('17) and Rose Service-Learning Fellow ('19) by Harvard’s Schools of Education and Public Health. My work has been presented to the American Anthropological Association, the American Public Health Association, the Society for Visual Anthropology, the Health Humanities Consortium, and the Association for Moral Education.

I received an ScD in social & behavioral sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice at The Film Study Center ('22). From 2015 through 2021, I regularly taught experiential, interdisciplinary courses on aesthetics, idea translation, higher education, medical anthropology, global health, and social medicine at Harvard College, MIT, and BU. I received a BS-MS in nutrition & food science from the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College ('12), where I coordinated a range of public science projects with NYC youth.