About me

I am a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, working at the intersections of political-economic anthropology; feminist theory; and linguistic anthropology. My primary research project is based in Arizona, and focuses on the experiences of retirees and the effects of retirement communities across the Southwest. I am particularly interested in urban and water infrastructures; kinship; and desert ecologies.

Previously I have worked as a contract ethnographer for a nonprofit and in the publishing industry.

I grew up in Los Angeles, where my curiosity about the world—and the way we make it up and create it—was fostered.