About me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University and an NIH/NICHD Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow (F31). As a medical sociologist, I use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to investigate how social and institutional forces shape both the provision and utilization of health services, with a focus on sexual and reproductive healthcare. In 2023, I was named an Emerging Scholar in Family Planning by the Society of Family Planning.

My dissertation will combine existing survey and electronic health record data from the Person to Person (P2P) Health Interview Study along with original interviews with reproductive-aged women in the P2P sample. This mixed-methods approach will reveal how women’s prior sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences inform their subsequent use of healthcare and, in doing so, shape unmet need for sexual and reproductive healthcare, with a particular focus on rural-urban disparities.

I graduated from Wake Forest University with a BA in Mathematics and Sociology in 2018 and received my MA in Sociology and MS in Applied Statistics from Indiana University in 2019 and 2021.