About

I was born and raised in Houston, TX. My neighborhood was hypersegregated with most living around the poverty line. Living there, I saw the social control mechanisms used by the police, school officials, and local politicians to reproduce racial and gendered inequality. During my studies at Beloit College, where I earned my B.A. in sociology, I began to understand those social forces and want to examine how these forces reproduce inequality.

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Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the sociology department at the University of Georgia. I earned my Masters in sociology at the University of Houston and a graduate certificate in women studies. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I examine how social inequality is reproduced through incarceration, the reentry process, and racialization.