Scholarship
Identity, emotion, neurodiversity, caregiving, and the institutions that organize everyday life.
ExploreSociologist · Educator · Strategist
Making sense of institutions—and creating conditions where people can participate, belong, and thrive.
I study how identity, family, care, and institutional life shape experiences of belonging, participation, and thriving. I also work alongside educators and community partners to turn evidence into practical change.
Current focus
Scholarship with somewhere to go.
My work begins with sociological questions and stays close to lived experience. Right now, I am especially interested in belonging and relational trust, caregiving in higher education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the practical work of institutional change.
Ways into the work
Different settings. A shared set of questions.
Teaching & mentoring
Relational trust, accessible course design, and undergraduate research that starts with students’ real lives.
ExploreCollaboratory work
Structured sensemaking that helps higher-education teams listen closely, learn together, and try what comes next.
ExplorePublic sociology
Community-based work connecting sociological evidence, civic participation, and local questions.
ExploreFeatured work
Sensemaking Collaboratory
A collaboratory gives teams room to slow down, compare what they are seeing, and make better decisions together. The work moves through five practical phases: clarify, listen, design, try, and reflect.
See how it works01Clarify
Name the question and the conditions around it.
02Listen
Gather experience, perspective, and evidence.
03Design
Develop possibilities grounded in what was learned.
04Try
Test a bounded, useful next step.
05Reflect
Study what happened and decide what follows.
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