I am a Demographer and an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Prior to coming to UC Davis, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University and the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. I hold a PhD in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS in Statistics from Stanford University.
I am interested in spatial demography, or more broadly, the connections between people and places. My research focuses on uncovering understudied patterns and drivers of neighborhood inequality in cities and examining how neighborhood conditions shape health and well-being. I examine neighborhood inequality across multiple ecological dimensions, including social, environmental, economic, education, and crime. The rationale driving this comprehensive and transdisciplinary approach is the perspective that neighborhoods are shaped by multiple ecological factors and, in turn, shape multiple outcomes. Furthermore, I examine how pathways linking place to well-being are stratified by neighborhood racial composition and are shaped by broader factors such as residential segregation and gentrification. My current research interests include segregation, neighborhood change, spatial social networks and human mobility.