I am an environmental anthropologist and political ecologist whose work focuses primarily on urban environmental contamination and water insecurity with an emphasis on infrastructural degradation, gender dynamics, and structural racism. I am dedicated to the use of feminist methodologies, and collaborative, participatory methods that center marginalized community voices and knowledge. 

My recent thesis and dissertation research examined the gendered and racialized impacts of water insecurity in two large, urban areas of the United States: Flint, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

My current postdoctoral research with Dr. Amber Wutich through Arizona State University's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory is focused on innovating modular, adaptive, and decentralized (MAD) water infrastructure systems in colonias along the US-Mexico border and on the social impacts of managed aquifer recharge through a partnership with the US Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering with Nature program.