I am a J.D. Candidate and Public Interest Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. My work focuses on criminal law, education, and civil rights.

My primary work focuses on the criminal legal system’s regulation of sex crimes. My forthcoming article in American Criminal Law Review asks whether the historical reasoning in Dobbs and Bruen, when applied to state powers to confine, could unsettle Hendricks. My current book project uses 51 interviews with prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement officers to analyze how criminal legal system actors make decisions in sex crimes cases, My research has been published in Sociology Compass and funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, and the UCI Law Initiative to End Family Violence. I was the recipient of the 2025 American Society of Criminology Division on Feminist Criminology Graduate Student Paper Award, the 2026 Western Society of Criminology Miki Vohryzek-Bolden Student Paper Competition Award, the 2022 American Sociological Association Student Forum Paper Award, and the 2020 Columbia University Women's and Gender Studies Prize.

Prior to my work on the criminal legal system, I conducted research on how victims of sexual violence interact with school Title IX processes. I co-authored Title IX policy proposals in 2017 based on semi-structured interviews with sexual assault survivors from dozens of institutions, which was endorsed by over 100 groups nationwide, and presented at the 63rd annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. My work on Title IX has been published in Feminist Criminology and The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

Outside of academia, I founded The Make It Safe Project, which has given over 130,000 youth access to books on gender and sexuality in schools, youth homeless shelters, and juvenile detention centers. I spent six years serving on the National Advisory Council for Glisten and five years doing anti-sexual violence work in No Red Tape Columbia. I was one of The Advocate magazine's Forty Under 40 LGBT Activists of 2012. As President of Associated Graduate Students of UCI for two years, I authored a student fee referendum that secured over $5 million in funding for UC Irvine’s Basic Needs Center, got guaranteed funding for undocumented graduate students, and oversaw UC Irvine’s transition to a new student health insurance with guaranteed coverage for reproductive and gender-affirming care.

My creative writing has been published in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Everyday Feminism, among other outlets. I am currently represented by Natalie Lakosil at Looking Glass Literary & Media Management.

You can view my current academic CV here.