Research

I am currently working on a quantitative analysis on neighborhood effects on access to prenatal care using the University of North Carolina Population Center's restricted ADD Health data. In this, I aim to unpack how characteristics of individual's residential neighborhood shape various indicators of maternal and infant health and health care access. 

Additionally, I am working with a team of scholars to explore sexual orientation and intergenerational financial transfers using restricted ADD Health data. 

Finally,  I am on a research team advised by Dr. Elizabeth Roberto in the Rice University Department of Sociology, working on projects related to sociological quantitative methodology, spatial analysis, and residential segregation. One project focuses on how road disconnectivity shapes access to local public goods. We are also working on a methodological paper that uses patterns of racial residential segregation over time and distance to demonstrate the need for expanding our methodological toolkit to include methods from epidemiology into the social sciences. 

In 2022, I  completed my master's thesis research project that identified patterns in the COVID-19 vaccination uptake across racial and ethnic minority groups and across time through a quantitative secondary analysis of county-level data.   To explore my research questions and understand racial/ethnic composition and county-level COVID-19 vaccination rates over time, I estimated linear growth models of the racial/ethnic composition of each county and the percent of each county that is fully vaccinated at critical points in time in the pandemic from December 2020 to April 2022 with time being allowed to randomly vary to model vaccination trends for longitudinal analysis. I demonstrate statistical analysis using Stata and necessary skills required working with large datasets and extensive literature analysis. Publication for this work is in progress. 

POPULATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 

April 2025 (Presenter) 

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

August 2025 (Non-Presenting Author)

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 

August 2023 (Presenter and Roundtable)

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM IN SOCIOLOGY

March 2023

Virtual Conference

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE   

ACTIVITIES CONFERENCE 

April 2020

Virtual Conference | University of California, Davis 

PACIFIC SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE  

March 2021

Virtual Conference