About Me

I am a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at Brown University and a 2025–26 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow.

My research examines the sociocultural world of Black elites. Drawing on interviews with families across the United States and participant observation in social and professional spaces in New York City and on Martha’s Vineyard, I analyze how well-resourced Black families build social worlds, transmit advantage, and strategize for their children’s futures. This project has been recognized with the Eastern Sociological Society’s Rose L. Coser Dissertation Proposal Award and the Charles V. Willie Graduate Student Award.

Prior to graduate study, I worked at Deerfield Academy as an English teacher, soccer and track & field coach, and dorm parent.

I was born and raised in a predominantly white enclave of Brooklyn, New York. That experience continues to shape my research and teaching: I remain attentive to questions of Black agency, institutional belonging, and how different forms of knowledge, culture, and experience are valued — in particular contexts, and to what ends.